[PD] Re: GUI to control [gemwin]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 1, 2006, at 11:25 PM, chris clepper wrote:

> On 4/1/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> >>> Is there any way to query [gemwin] directly?
> >
> > ...currently, fps is the only message that sends an output to the
> > outlet...what are you thinking about?
>
> Rendering, 1/0, gemwin create status 1/0, lighting 1/0, etc.
> Basically, anything that you can set in a [gemwin].
>
> The gemwin doesn't modify that info so whatever you set it to be it  
> will be.  Why add code to tell you what you have already done?  You  
> example patch looks to already cover that with no additional effort.

If you open a new patch with [gemwin_control] in it, then that object  
needs to get the status of any existing [gemwin] so that it will  
display the status correctly.  I hacked [gemwin_control] so that it  
handles the status querying.  It makes sense to me to instead query  
[gemwin] directly.

The example here is a series of tutorial patches.  Each patch should  
be standalone, so that you can create/destroy the [gemwin].  But  
usually, the user will go thru them in a sequence.  So when you load  
a new patch, it should display the [gemwin] status correctly.

It would be great if Pd itself also had a message-based system for  
querying the status of everything.

.hc


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