[PD] [PD-dev] tkwidgets

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Here's a good example of what I mean: the drawing commands for obj,msg, 
> etc boxes should not be in 'pd'.  'pd' should tell 'pd-gui': "draw an 
> object on this canvas, at this x,y with these inlets and outlets". 
> "pd-gui" should also handle the mouse clicks, selection coloration, 
> change of line style from dashed to solid, etc.  So something like:
>
>  draw_object .x230ad0.c "osc~ 500" 10 500 inlet~ inlet outlet~

desiredata sends :
   change x9ad1038 x9acecc0 0 {#X obj 140 100 osc~ 500;} 2 1 1

this is not using sys_mgui(), though. I don't really remember why I 
decided to not use it. It's using the pd_upload() function in the server. 
The 4th argument is the line of the object as it would be written in a .pd 
file. the 5th and 6th arguments is the number of inlets and outlets, and 
the 7th argument means that the object is ok (no red dash). The first arg 
is the id of the object, the second arg is the id of the canvas, and the 
third arg is the index of the object (as used in #X connect).

This was for object updates, and was supposed to be replaced by something 
more efficient based on diffs. The other problem with uploading whole 
objects was that it didn't merge diffs, as has to happen when you move a 
slider that is currently receiving values or changing colour on its own, 
for example.

sys_mgui was meant for sending updates. You'd give an object id, then a 
selector, then an arg signature (like "fssfsffsf" to mean some combination 
of float and symbols, for example), then varargs. This assumed that the 
object id came first, as in most forms of object-oriented Tcl, and unlike 
plain procs.

the proc named «change» had to be a regular proc, because it's also 
responsible for creating the object if it does not exist, so that there 
isn't any special case for that, and then it couldn't be an instance 
method because the object might not exist yet.

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