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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sun Jul 17 01:00:52 CEST 2011


On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> 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).

The magicglass functionality does this, but doesn't show the stored  
value, only the message as it passes.  I suppose it would be nice to  
see a stored value in an inlet...

.hc

>  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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