[PD] how to capture window-related mouse-events when toxy is discontinued?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
> To: katja <katjavetter at gmail.com>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>; Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] how to capture window-related mouse-events when toxy is discontinued?
> 
>>>  The toxy lib is discontinued in Pd-extended 0.43. Tried to find an
>>>  alternative, asked on the Pd forum. No solution so far. I explored gem
>>>  for GUI purposes, but this introduces even more dependencies.
>>>  Data-structures seem an option at first sight, but can not provide
>>>  large reactive area's (only the center pixel of an object is
>>>  reactive).
>> 
>>  Are you in edit mode in that video?  If so, data structures will react 
> accordingly.
>> 
>>  In run mode there is a way to make the entire polygon reactive (instead of 
> just a
>>  little 5x5 pixel "hot spot"), but it's hacky.
> 
> It can happen that data structures (tcl/tk) can be a bit heavy to manipulate, 
> and will cause dropouts.
> 
> If it's in edit mode, the "whole polygon" will create trouble when 
> clicking it to position an object, no?

Well, instead of "whole polygon" I should say "all the visualizations associated with 
a scalar".  In edit mode you'll get a bounding box around the scalar and you can drag
it just as any pd object.  The [struct] outlet will notify you with a "displace" msg when you 
do this, and you can use the pointer element from that message to get the current 
x and y for that scalar.

-Jonathan

> unless that's not a data structure, 
> but a canvas with a small selection square.
>