[PD] tooltips in pd-extended 0.43

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-03-06 à 15:38:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit :

> 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.

How do I say that... Make sure that you don't create a situation in which 
people have to add more extra room in each patch to make space for 
something that may be transient but might overlap the wrong thing, e.g. 
the thing you're trying to edit or to have tip info about.

Note that currently, patches save the window size, and not the canvas 
size. Perhaps it is time to move to saving a fudged canvas size, that is 
meant to be compatible with existing patches but is meant to compensate 
for a permanent status bar or any other additional structure.

The transient thing is harder to take into account... it is meant to both 
be used as a statusbar, and be counted as canvas space ?...

I don't know, I think that canvas space is somewhat more touchy to manage 
in pd than in firefox, and I would think that it's not that much about 
full-width... the full-height seems at least as important... and the fact 
that pd patches always state their own size, while web pages rarely do... 
and pd patches more often rely on it... and it's often because they have 
no real means to do otherwise.

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