[PD] Tip of the Day

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Therefore my tip-of-the-day patch has at least one sign of civilization.

-Jonathan

--- On Thu, 12/9/10, Theron Trowbridge <theron.trowbridge at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Theron Trowbridge <theron.trowbridge at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] Tip of the Day
To: pd-list at iem.at
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 8:10 PM

That is why all civilized tip-of-the-day dialog boxes have a don't-do-that (again) button.


-Theron
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2010/12/9 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>


On Dec 6, 2010, at 4:33 PM, András Murányi wrote:



2010/12/6 Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>

 On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, András Murányi wrote:
 
  Annoying for me, even if i'm interested in the software. But that's just me. For those who find it useful, this could be developed into something that can really be started up when pd starts - sounds like a plugin? :op One way is to rewrite it as a plugin, another is to make a plugin which loads the patch at startup. Either way i'd be happy to help you.

  
 Btw, it doesn't have to be a gui plugin, it can also be a regular -lib that doesn't contain any externals, but instead, just a single call to canvas_open or similar.


Yea, but i cannot help Jonathan with that. What "makes it make sense" however, is that it starts up automatically. One can also modify his/her pd icon so that it starts up with the patch.
  
 
 And btw, lots of people use the word «plugin» to mean library or external,
Honestly, you are to first to tell me this, but i'm not so old and haven't really been around the world so much.

   so, if by plugin, you mean gui plugin, you ought to be more specific.

 
Sir I will be Sir. Let me add that i'd reserve the name 'plugin' for things that are pluggable into an API and that is something me and Hans may have a different view about - for him (afaiu) it's almost an API, for me hardly an API. Nevertheless, it's cool. (I won't define 'cool' for you :o)

hehe, its the beginnings of an API, it definitely needs work. :)
As for the Tip of the Day thing, they are common in software, so I guess that some people like them.  I think the idea is good, but usually the way its presented is not the best.  For example, when I start an app, I am usually focused on something that I need to get done, so I don't want to see a Tip of the Day screen.  But perhaps there is another better time for that, or it could easily be an item on the Help menu.

.hc 


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