[PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43

[Scott R. Looney]

as if i remember Max in the olden days the inlet and outlet descriptors for
objects were listed in the left bottom corner of the window. possible to
give a choice for either way or is that too much coding overhead?

scott

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> > To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: pd-list List <pd-list at iem.at>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
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> >
> > I think that we should be pushing GUI stuff to the Tcl side of things as
> > much as possible, plus I prefer the current tooltip display down on the
> > lower right.  I find that popups right next to the mouse are often
> annoying.
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> I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side
> of the
> current mouse location.
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> -Jonathan
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> > .hc
> >
> > On 03/06/2012 02:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> >>  ----- Original Message -----
> >>>  From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> >>>  To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> >>>  Cc:
> >>>  Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:53 PM
> >>>  Subject: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
> >>>
> >>>  Hello,
> >>>       Hans asked me to write up an explanation of the new tooltips in
> > pd-extended
> >>>  0.43.
> >>>  Attached are some patches that outline how they work.
> >>>  Just open tips-help.pd.
> >>>
> >>>  Tooltips get their tip information from the [pd META] subpatch inside
> > the help
> >>>  patch for
> >>>
> >>>  the object.  So if you want to have tooltips for your externals, or
> set
> > of
> >>>  abstractions, make
> >>>
> >>>  sure you have complete help patches for all of your object classes.
> >>>
> >>>  Hans-- Ivica modified my original patch in the most recent build of
> > pd-l2ork so
> >>>  that the
> >>>
> >>>  tips follow the mouse, and he put the Enter/Leave logic on the c side
> > of things.
> >>>
> >>>  -Jonathan
> >
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