[PD] position of an abstraction in a patch

[Josh Steiner]

you can use toxy to listen to the editing messages to and keep track of 
where objects you care about are.  not saying it would be easy, but 
indeed it is possible.  -josh

Cyrille Henry wrote:

> hello,
> thanks for the reply,
>
> It's not really what I wanted.
>
> my nead is that the abstraction (or object) should know it's position 
> even it it's moved with the mouse.
>
> So, I would like to be able to create or move objects on the fly, and 
> the object itself  has to know it's position on the patcher whatever 
> the user is doing....
>
> canvas offer this posibility :
> a canvas will reply it's position to a  "get_pos" message.
> I nead the same fonctionality for an object, abstraction or a graph...
>
> is it possible or will it be possible?
> (I would prefer not to learn python!)
>
> thanks
>
> Cyrille
>
>
> IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> Guillaume Boutard wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway if you create them on the
>>> fly, that would be no use.
>>>
>> but if you would create them on the fly, you would already know the 
>> position
>>
>>
>> mfg.a.sdr
>> IOhannes
>>
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