[PD] Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeah, its great that you made this.  I think people are too used to  
thinking that some things are set in stone, like message boxes and  
arguments.  But you really can make your own.  And you did it in Pd  
event, bonus points there :-D

.hc

On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Matt Barber wrote:

> There are plenty of bugs still, but this might be the type of thing
> one could do without having to code a new object.
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Here's a start -- it requires [s2l] and [l2s] from zexy, though  
>> (there
>> may be a way to do it vanilla, but possibly not).
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca 
>> > wrote:
>>> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Someone could write their own message box object and make it do  
>>>> whatever
>>>> they want.  Then you have both: a new interface and backwards  
>>>> compatibility.
>>>>  The message box could just be a GUI object like any other, there  
>>>> is nothing
>>>> inherently unique about it.
>>>
>>> It wouldn't even need to be a "GUI" object. just make it an  
>>> objectbox class
>>> named [m]. Then "$1" (etc) becomes the same as in other  
>>> objectboxes, and
>>> then another syntax can be used to mean message arguments. Except  
>>> that if
>>> it's not a GUI object, then it's not clickable, and stuff.
>>>
>>> User-wise, there _is_ something inherently unique to the  
>>> messagebox, but it
>>> happens to be exactly the difference that we'd like to eliminate.
>>>
>>>  _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ...
>>> | Mathieu Bouchard, Montréal, Québec. téléphone: +1.514.383.3801
>>




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