[PD] shouldn't message boxes work as gui elements?

[Miller Puckette]

Hi all,

Message boxes were written to share code with object boxes and comments, but
hacked a bit to respond to mouse clicks.

Making them graph on parent would make sense (the only reason they weren't
before is that in the very first graph-on-parent implementation one couldn't
hide things by moving them out of the little red rectangle>)

cheers
Miller

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:33:35PM +0000, Andrew Faraday wrote:
> 
> I've often wondered of message boxes, why they don't have some form of GUI to indicate when they're triggered (like the bang object). 
> Sorry, this is an asside but I would like to know why.
> 
> > Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:25:18 +0100
> > From: matteosistisette at gmail.com
> > To: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: [PD] shouldn't message boxes work as gui elements?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know if this is already being addressed in the rewrite-gui 
> > version...
> > 
> > I've always wondered why message boxes are not treated as gui elements, 
> > like number and symbol boxes, that is:
> > 
> > - they do not graph on parent
> > - they do not have a properties dialog with at least a send and receive 
> > symbol
> > 
> > Is there some particular reason why it has been decided not to treat (or 
> > allow treating) message boxes as gui elements, or is it simply that it 
> > has never been felt as a priority to implement this feature? I mean, 
> > would it imply any drawback?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matteo Sisti Sette
> > matteosistisette at gmail.com
> > http://www.matteosistisette.com
> > 
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