[PD] <<Loaded>> event

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That's a tricky one.  I think that <<Loaded>> should be sent when the patch is all done, so the current situation is a bug.  Since the drawing commands come from 'pd', 'pd' would have to trigger the <<Loaded>> event.  I forget how its triggered now.

Definitely avoid 'update', I recently refactored my pdwindow.tcl code to switch from 'update' to 'after idle'.

.hc

On Nov 17, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> Hi Hans,
>      I'm close to finishing a revision of my tooltips patch.  To properly loadbang a canvas tip 
> 
> I need something like a <<Loaded>> event, but one that tells me when the a pd patch window has 
> 
> finally finished being drawn by Tk.  <<Loaded>> seems to trigger once the procedure for creating 
> 
> a new canvas has finished (technically right before, I guess), but it doesn't tell me when Tk has 
> 
> actually finished drawing the window and setting all the window dimensions that are query-able 
> 
> through winfo.
> 
> I think I could use <Configure>, but it will trigger multiple times-- I just want one event that tells me 
> 
> "Ok, everything that needed to get drawn as a result of creating this patch window is done drawing."  
> 
> (tcl/tk wiki warns against "update idletasks" which can cause subtle bugs.)
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
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