[PD] reorg of puredata.info/docs/developer

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sat, 7/16/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] reorg of puredata.info/docs/developer
> To: "Mathieu Bouchard" <matju at artengine.ca>
> Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>, "PD List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Saturday, July 16, 2011, 11:00 PM
> 
> On Jul 16, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > 
> >> I really like the idea of the prefs being a pd
> patch which gets loaded as a hidden patch like pd-_float
> (but doesn't get destroyed if you happen to "vis" it then
> close it so that one can view it from a menubutton).
> > 
> > Sending "vis 0"

Yeah, I meant closing it by clicking the "x" on that window.  That closes the patch.

 to a toplevel canvas-object doesn't
> "close" the patch in the way you might imagine : then the
> patch still runs, but the window is closed AND not listed in
> the Window menus. It can be a useful trick. The canvas can
> still be reached if you know its symbol and can be brought
> back using a "vis 1". Thus it could be summoned from any
> patch.
> 
> 
> I think he means more than it doesn't show up like a
> regular patch window.  I think the default prefs patch
> window could be embedded in the Pd window, perhaps.  Or
> just callable from a menu.
> 
> .hc
> 
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