[PD] 'relocate' message

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sun Jan 3 07:14:02 CET 2010


On Jan 2, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

>
>
> --- On Sun, 1/3/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: [PD] 'relocate' message
>> To: "Pd List" <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 12:00 AM
>>
>> Is anyone using the 'relocate' message to move/resize
>> windows in Pd?  I ask because I want to simplify that
>> code and the message itself in pd-gui-rewrite 0.43.
>> Its currently a very strange format, and it no longer needs
>> to be.
>>
>> Here's the only working example that I know of:
>> http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/trunk/doc/additional/pd-msg/1.msg_and_patch/6.relocate_windows..pd?view=log
>>
>> The idea is to make the message like this:
>>
>> "relocate   WIDTHxHEIGHT+XLoc+YLoc"
>>
>> Currently its like this:
>>
>> "relocate   WIDTHxHEIGHT+0+0
>> 0x0+XLoc+YLoc"
>>
>> .hc
>
> Hi Hans,
>    Is there a reason the message can't simply be "relocate WIDTH  
> HEIGHT
> XLoc Yloc"?  Whether using pd-ext or vanilla, I've always thought it  
> seems
> really awkward to cram the coordinates into one big symbol.
>
> -Jonathan


Hmm, that makes sense. I wonder if this should just have the same  
syntax as 'canvas', so:

relocate x1 y1 x2 y2

Where x is the upper left corner, and y is the lower right corner.

.hc


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