[PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
Jonathan Wilkes
jancsika at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 11 20:43:44 CEST 2011
--- On Mon, 7/11/11, Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> From: Martin Peach <martin.peach at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
> To: "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 6:42 PM
> On 2011-07-11 12:06, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> >
> > But I'm not sure where to store the tooltip string...
> >
>
>
> Not sure if that's what you mean, but in max the
> assist method receives a number corresponding to the inlet
> or outlet and returns a pointer to the appropriate string,
> so the string is already stored somewhere in the memory
> allocated to the object.
Ok, I see.
I don't get the idea of having a new method that's supposed to be hidden from the user (but really isn't) for every object that wants tooltips; in some cases it would subtly change the function of the object class, like [bang] and [route]. (Aside from crashing Pd, "dsp" isn't such a big deal because there isn't much of a need for an object that takes a signal AND parses arbitrary selectors, esp. on the same inlet.) Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if
[textfile] output lists, and there was a [routelist] in Pd vanilla...
Did desiredata have tooltips? If so, how were they implemented?
-Jonathan
>
> Martin
>
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