[PD] creation parameters to inlets/outlets for documentation?

[András Murányi]

...and it would be lovely to have the text appear in a tooltip when mousing
over the inlet/outlet in the parent patch! The drawback mentioned by Phil
could be pretty annoying though.
Question 1.: What's up with tooltips in pd right now? I couldn't find it
out from the list archives.
Question 2.: What if the parser would explicitly stop parsing elements when
it finds ";#" and would use the remaining part as a
comment/tooltip/whatever? Could this change break anything in real life?

András

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Phil Stone <pkstone at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> One potentially nasty drawback to this practice (I found) was that if you
> change the pseudo-argument in any way, you lose whatever connections were
> made to that inlet or outlet in the outer patch. I agree with you that
> comments are a pain in the neck, but at least they don't exhibit this often
> hard-to-find side effect.
>
>
> Phil
> www.pkstonemusic.com
>
>
>
>
> On 6/19/12 12:41 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
>> quick question: is it legal to (ab)use creation parameters to inlets and
>> outlets for documentation, or does that lead to unwanted side effects?
>>
>> i'd like to do something like this:
>>
>> [inlet Set level in dB]
>> [inlet Set Fader position in mm]
>>
>> [outlet Current level in dB]
>> [outlet Current Fader position in mm]
>> [outlet~ Gain coefficient]
>>
>> of course i could use comments, but i don't like the way they don't
>> line-wrap in a controlled way, plus their association to what they are
>> annotating is a bit weak for my taste...
>>
>> best,
>>
>>
>> jörn
>>
>>
>
>
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