[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Patches-1516869 ] hide object name+args with gop

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds quite useful.  Any chance you want to add it to packages/ 
patches so that it'll get included in Pd-extended?

.hc

On Jul 4, 2006, at 7:55 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>>> this is related to feature request [ 1491020 ]
>> I had a quick look: That's quite nice and very useful. Of course it
>> also has the problem, that now looking at a patch and a printed patch
>> won't give away all of it's workings. One cannot even say, if a
>> certain object is of a certain kind just by looking at it (see
>> attached patch: the left toggle in fact is a subpatch). So this
>> feature has to be used with great care.
>
> yes this is true. (otoh, there are already ways to circumvent the  
> "printed patch" paradigm: just hide your objects with a canvas).
> furthermore, it makes gop-objects more like the real graphical  
> objects (like iemgui).
>
>
>> I think it would be nice if I didn't need to open the GUI dialog
>> everytime I want to edit the object. Something like showing the  
>> object
>> name and argument automatically, if an object is selected in edit  
>> mode
>> would be a useful improvement.
>
> i totally agree, though i think that the 2 are not directly related.
> personally i would prefer a small editor outside of the patch (like  
> in a status-line at the bottom of the window), similar to the edit- 
> field in widespread spreadshit apps.
> see also feature request [1491020].
>
> so: i didn't take care of this problem since i thought it should be  
> solved separately.
>
> mfg.adsr.
> IOhannes
>
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