[PD] [PD-announce] getpatchname

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Jamie Bullock wrote:

> I think [getpatchname] is better. Some people might think that 
> [getcanvasname] returned the name of a [cnv].

[cnv] isn't a "canvas". Pd already has "canvas" written all over it as 
synonymous to "patcher". The name of [cnv] is an aberration that better be 
fixed ASAP, but it's been 5 years like that and it's still confusing 
people and no-one does anything about it.

[cnv] doesn't allow to do *anything* that one may associate with what a 
canvas can do, neither the existing pd canvasses, nor the existing tk 
canvasses, awt canvasses, nor anything else in any other user interface 
toolkit, and also it doesn't have anything to do with canvasses that are 
used for painting on (which is the metaphor underlying all other meanings 
of "canvas").

Because of that, I nickname [cnv] the "can'tvas", but really, I'd prefer 
it having a name that makes sense and isn't a joke.

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