[PD-dev] tooltips idea

[Chris McCormick]

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:58:12PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
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>> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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>>> 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.
>
> Do you have a record of the original objection?  I am just operating on 
> memory.

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