[PD] PDDP (was: Finding "$0" and dealing with it in messages)

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> Could you post an example help patch?  I downloaded gridflow to check 
> out how your help patches work but I'm on windows so I just get a bunch 
> of broken objects.

Screenshots of all the helpfiles are available at http://gridflow.ca/help/ 
but this is 0.9.6 (and the new helpfiles are already a bit different). 
note that those shots are truncated when they are too long (higher than my 
screen). I didn't code an automated screenshot stitcher yet (and there's 
no way I'm gonna do this manually).

Some helpfiles that best illustrate GFDP (among those that fit in a 
screenshot):
   http://gridflow.ca/help/%23mouse-help.png
   http://gridflow.ca/help/%23labelling-help.png
   http://gridflow.ca/help/range-help.png
   http://gridflow.ca/help/receives-help.png

But really, to appreciate GFDP you have to know that every component is an 
abstraction instance (except comments), that there are invisible 
patchcords so that comments have owners, and then there is an automatic 
positioning system:

   http://gridflow.ca/gallery/doc_anim.mov

but this video doesn't demonstrate much of it. Here's a screenshot of 
range-help.pd when in edit mode:

   http://gridflow.ca/gallery/%23range-help-edit.png

patchcords that aren't used for sending messages are dashed and painted 
orange. The dashed boxes aren't usually there. They can be turned on by 
editing two abstractions (one for comments and one for non-comments). What 
you see in this screenshot is by editing only one abstraction; in the 
video, the other abstraction has been edited. Note that some buttons are 
visible only when in edit-mode. Note that moving a [doc_m] moves the 
attached comment around, but moving the comment around has no effect (or 
may reorder comments if there are several of them). Writing more text in a 
comment automatically moves all following [doc_m] downwards and so on 
including higher-level section headings ([doc_oo], [doc_o], etc)

There's more to it. I guess someone with a faster computer than mine could 
make a video of all the features.

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