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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [PD] creation parameters to inlets/outlets for documentation?
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>...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.

They will display for the object text, based on the description of the object inside the META subpatch of its help patch.
They will display for xlets, showing the types of messages accepted, based on the META subpatch of its help patch.


>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?


[;# obscure example; but i think matju's #V is a better, more readable solution that could
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>András
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>On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Phil Stone <pkstone at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
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>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.
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>>Phil
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>>On 6/19/12 12:41 PM, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
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>>quick question: is it legal to (ab)use creation parameters to inlets and outlets for documentation, or does that lead to unwanted side effects?
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>>>i'd like to do something like this:
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>>>[inlet Set level in dB]
>>>[inlet Set Fader position in mm]
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>>>[outlet Current level in dB]
>>>[outlet Current Fader position in mm]
>>>[outlet~ Gain coefficient]
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>>>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...
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>>>best,
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>>>jörn
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