[PD] Re: [PD-dev] tooltips ideas

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Jul 6 08:26:42 CEST 2006


On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Federico wrote:

> here there could be a kind of "sub-command" that tells pd of this data
> (I would better name it META-data)
> :
> #X obj <X> <Y> helloWorldAbs;
> #X text <X> <Y> #T tooltip for this object;
> #X text <X> <Y> #C <COLOR>;
> [...]
> a user that doesn't have this feature just should ignore or delete that
> crap in front of the object.... or if he is geeky enough, strip out
> metadata with sed or perl :=)

The fact that #V (or #T or #C) doesn't exist in Miller's Pd will already 
strip all those directives because the #V receiver doesn't exist there. 
The idea of superimposing all those directives as comments on top of the 
object they apply to, is not much more than a joke of yours.

The only way troublesome incompatibility would be introduced, is if there 
is no terminating semicolon on those extra directives, but that's not what 
I have implemented in DesireData.

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