[PD-dev] Hacking numberbox to send value only on mouse up

[ix at replic.net]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:18:33PM +0100, Jan Baumgart wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> I'm currently writing an oldschool pattern-list sequencer pd patch, using 
> lots of numberboxes and the PDContainer external, eg.
> 
> measure quarter tick           values
>    1       2     380      12   -234  23  2.5
> ....
> 
> everything works fine, except one thing: When changing the time of one 
> list entry via mouse movement, the list gets resorted on _every_ motion 
> and eventually the entry gets replaced by another one and I end up in a 
> complete "timeline" mess,
> 
> ---HERE's THE ACTUAL QUESTION--- 
>  
> I'm looking for a way to change numbox or number2`s behaviour to only send 
> its value, when the mouse button is released. I'm not familiar with PDs 
> communication with the tk-GUI and the numbox-code seems quite confusing to 
> me :(. Is there any chance at all, for an external to react on mouse 
> _release_ ???

can't help you with the normal numboxes, but with toxy it could be:

#> mynumbox text
bind .- <ButtonRelease-1> {pd [concat .| _cb [.- cget -text] \;]}
bind .- <B1-Motion> {.- configure -text [expr [.- cget -text] + %x]}

or something along those lines..

> 
> THX for any ideas on this.
> happy coding,
> jan.
> 
> 
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