[PD] enhance pd-extended with pd-l2ork featues ?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/19/2013 09:39 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 2:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] enhance pd-extended with pd-l2ork featues ?
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>> On 01/19/2013 02:14 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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>>>>  From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>>  To: pd-list at iem.at
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>>>>  Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:33 PM
>>>>  Subject: Re: [PD] enhance pd-extended with pd-l2ork featues ?
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>>>>  I haven't heard any objections to including them. I agree, they are 
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>>>>  features.  It is just a matter of someone doing the work of porting 
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>>>>  changes to Pd-extended.
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>>>  So you would be ok with adding a field to the widgetbehavior struct
>>>  (or whatever its called)?  Doesn't that break binary compatability?
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>>>  I think many of his gui speedups are based off that.
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>> Breaking binary compatibility is not something to do lightly.  It creates lot
>> of other headaches.  Plus I don't think its necessary to speed up the GUI, I
>> think there are better approaches.
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> How do you change text_displace to send a single
> message to the gui to just "move everything that is currently selected" rather
> than sending a separate message for every selected t_text?

I think you take it a step further and keep pd out of the moving process all
together.  pd-gui should handle moves entirely, and then just report it to pd
once its complete.

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