[PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> I'm not doing it that way.  I'm looking up the xlet info in the help 
> patch in [pd META] when the xlet is created, then putting the relevant 
> text as an argument to the command that gets "bind"ed to the xlet tag's 
> <Enter> and <Leave> events.
> Better to just add a few lines of tcl to gather the relevant info from your help docs.

I wonder whether there might be any other reasons to have an assist-method 
in a way that can't be done in any other way. What are the possible use 
for the tooltips ?

   1. Tell the name of the inlet. This is not an info already present in
      the class, and usually not in the docs either.

   2. Tell the list of methods.

   3. Tell the value last put in an inlet, if it's currently stored (and
      if the concept makes sense for that particular inlet).

   4. Other. (which uses ?)

I think that you are mostly only thinking about #2, and Günter's system 
was only taking care of #1, and I think that there was a pd-list 
discussion about something like #3 a long time ago.

I don't know what's available in MAX, and I don't think that it 
necessarily has to be implemented in the same way.

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