[PD] "click" messages on GUI objects?

[Yves Degoyon]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

>On Sun, 2 May 2004, Marc Lavallée wrote:
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>>Le 2 Mai 2004 21:44, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit :
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>>>I would be curious to know who ever explicitly sends "click" messages to
>>>any builtin GUI objects of Pd (bang, toggle, etc.).
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>>Is it any different from a "bang" message? 
>>Could it be considered as an alias to "bang"?
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>on [bng] and [tgl] it's essentially the same as a bang message; however
>for other IEM objects it is not the case: it's actually a way to implement
>the handling of mouse clicks. In IMPD this is going away right now,
>because the server part of those objects won't directly know anything GUI
>like mouseclicks. The "click" messages still could be supported as a
>server->client->server detour if necessary.
>
unclear, of course, the "click" message is very useful for many
graphical objects ( cooled~; sonogram~, ... )
i dunno why you try to over-simplify things.

cheers,
sevy
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