[PD] GOP and menu displacements [was: oldschool rave synths]

Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 14:45:55 CET 2007


Why even allow the negative areas to be 'breached' then? Is it related
to Miller's initial desire to create graphs that exceed their
boundaries?

~Kyle

On 3/14/07, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Andy and me had a little off-list discussion, but this below may be
> interesting to others as well.
>
> padawan12 hat gesagt: // padawan12 wrote:
>
> > A problem often comes when you activate GOP on a patch - to be honest
> > I've never understood any reason to why it selects one particular
> > place as the GOP center, is it just random? Anyway, this often requires
> > moving objects up and left beyond the frame.
>
> Actually as default Pd always puts the red rectangle to the same
> position at coordinates x=100, y=100. The origin of this coordiante
> system (x=0, y=0) is in the upper left corner of a patch normally, the
> positive x-direction is to the right, the pos. y-direction is down(!)
> from there.
>
> However if you move objects into the area with "negative" coordinates
> left or above the patch's borders, Pd will still show them, but it
> will move the origin (0, 0) to somewhere in the middle of the patch.
> The red GOP rectange still is at (100, 100), but now it may seem to be
> at a different position, because the origin (0, 0) doesn't match the
> window-borders anymore.
>
> I suppose that Pd will try to create the Properties menu at a position
> indicated by the object's coordinates, but it will reference a
> different origin, that's why the menu seems is displaced.
>
> Well, all this is very confusing, that's not moving stuff to the
> negative area is quite important.
>
> Ciao
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