[PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43

[Jonathan Wilkes]

The window item is a canvas item and looks like the Firefox notification at the bottom left of 

the browser-- it can overlap content of the page, but is transient (and gets out of the way of 

the mouse if you happen to be mousing around in that area).  Firefox will put it on the bottom 

right to get out of the way of the mouse, but I bounce mine at the top of the patch since patches 

are more likely to be less wide than the browser window (which is typically full monitor width) 

so the tip would probably take up the whole width in the first place.


Status bar would be like an extra widget (label I guess) running the full width of the window that 
is below the canvas, so it won't overlap the canvas but wouldn't leave after the tip goes away.

-Jonathan


----- Original Message -----
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; pd-list List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
> 
> Le 2012-03-06 à 14:40:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :
> 
>>  There are actually three possibilities-- balloon, statusbar, and window 
> item at the bottom of the patch (which is the current pd-extended 
> implementation).
> 
> I don't know what's the difference between the last two...
> 
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