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

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 5 16:20:11 CET 2011


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> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: katja <katjavetter at gmail.com>; "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [PD] how to capture window-related mouse-events when toxy is discontinued?
> 
> Le 2011-11-02 à 08:19:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> 
>>  One thing is that any GUI objects created with [widget] cease to pass 
> messages when the containing window gets unmapped.
> 
> Is that a problem...? What problem does that cause ?

Well, if you threw a [tgl] into a subpatch or abstraction, got the object chain that it's in working, 
then closed that window and the [tgl] no longer passes messages, it is extremely likely that your 
patch will no longer work.

Granted one might be less likely to be embedding [widget] objects where they won't be seen, but 
that requirement limits their usefulness.  For example, I can send a "set" message to a [tgl], or change 
its color when it's unmapped-- not only can I not do that with [widget], but I'll get an error if I try.

At least that's what I remember the last time I used [widget].  It also didn't [loadbang] properly which 
was annoying.

-Jonathan

> 
> Anyway, Pd does weird things with unmapped window... It deletes all canvas-items 
> whenever you minimise a window. I don't know whether it was ever useful to 
> save RAM back in 1995 when 16M would cost between 640 $ and 2000 $ (remember the 
> RAM shortage racket ?), but this behaviour is part of Pd, and you have to take 
> into account, whether you use t_widgetbehavior or Toxy.
> 
> I don't remember whether DesireData preserved that behaviour, but it's 
> possible that I didn't bother changing that (however, DD introduced 
> additional layers so that C code would hardly know what Tk is).
> 
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