[PD] [PD-announce] new editing features of Pd-extended 0.43, now in beta!

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
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> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:02 PM
> Subject: [PD] [PD-announce] new editing features of Pd-extended 0.43, now in beta!
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> • Autotips gives you tips about what an object does, what its inlet expects, and 
> what comes out of the outlets.

You can also make manual tips that are basically like notifications to a canvas:

[tgl]
|
[tip $1 Hello World(
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[send thisCanvas]

[namecanvas thisCanvas]

The tip will try to stay out of the way of the mouse.  This is a nice tool to design 
tutorials that can dynamically give tips as the user clicks on stuff, for example.  
You can also generate the tips from a gui plugin-- might be interesting to make a 
"patching clock" that sends a timed message to the canvas that currently has 
focus: "Hey, you've been patching for 20 minutes straight... take a break!"

-Jonathan