[PD] GUI abstraction issues

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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> From: Esteban Viveros <emviveros at gmail.com>
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>Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:50 PM
>Subject: [PD] GUI abstraction issues
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>Hi list,
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>I'm initiating to do gui abstractions, and I have two issues in pd-extended.
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>First: When I use the inlet object, can I name it? This is because I would like to have the name inlet in "Autotips" mode. This in pd-extended and l2ork.


Hi Esteban,
     If your abstraction is named "foo.pd", then make a help patch named "foo-help.pd"
and put a [pd META] subpatch in it.  Inside the subpatch, make a <ctrl-5> comment
with this text:
INLET_0 Put your inlet name here

That will display "Put your inlet name here" when you hover over the leftmost inlet
in "Autotips" mode.  (You can address the other inlets with INLET_1, INLET_2, etc.,
as well as OUTLET_0, etc.)


I could have made it a lot easier by searching the abstraction itself for the info to
display in the tip, but I _really_ want to discourage the practice of using the
abstraction as its own documentation since that excludes the possibility for an
example patch (which IMO is the most important part of the help patch).


You can find more info on the pd META stuff in doc/5.reference/all_about_pd_META.pd
or just use Help->Search for "all about pd META"

-Jonathan


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>Second: In pd-extended .43.4, when I try to use a canvas with graph on parents, I can't see the inlets and outlets.. Is as if graph on parents is below of the canvas object, I'm sending an objects to explain better this issue.
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>Thanks..
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