[PD] why graph on parent ?

[Miller Puckette]

Yeah, I haven't written the doc yet, but just close the patch and you'll see
all the GUI objects appear on the parent instead.  The idea is to allow you
to design abstractions with GUIs.

cheers
Miller

On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:38:28PM -0400, joge . wrote:
> hi all .
> 
> i have been playing around recently with visual aspects of pd to aid in the
> representation of some audio processing .  i stumbled upon the *graph on
> parent* option when right clicking on a subpatch .   however , i dont see
> the use of this option .  it doesnt seem like it is doing anything except
> making a gray box which i can specify the dimensions of .  the graphical box
> turn blue when i highlight it and then sometimes it turns black .
> is there a way to get a certain a portion of a subpatch to graph on the
> parent patch that is called from ?
> 
> joge .
>