[PD-dev] tooltips idea

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> So there has been a revived discussion of adding "tooltip" support to 
> inlets/outlets, based on Günter's old patch.  I think we should open up 
> the discussion again to see if we can come up with a solution that 
> Miller would accept.  I believe his original objection was based on the 
> fact that the patch added a record to the t_class struct. So I was 
> thinking that instead of storing the tooltip data in t_class, it could 
> be stored using a custom struct like t_inletdescription that was then 
> added to object's class.

so the new objection will be based on the fact that the patch added a 
record to the t_class struct?... i mean, this struct doesn't make any 
difference with the original objection.

> I guess the advantage of putting it into t_class is that there would only be 
> one copy of it.

Indeed.

> That makes sense since every instance should need the same data.

Why does this make sense? I mean, how can you actually tell that every 
instance should need the same data?

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