[PD] GUI abstraction issues

[Esteban Viveros]

Very helpful!!

Thanks!


2013/2/17 Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>

> >________________________________
> > From: Esteban Viveros <emviveros at gmail.com>
> >To: PD-list list <pd-list at iem.at>
> >Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 4:50 PM
> >Subject: [PD] GUI abstraction issues
> >
> >
> >Hi list,
> >
> >
> >I'm initiating to do gui abstractions, and I have two issues in
> pd-extended.
> >
> >
> >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
>
>
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
> >Thanks..
> >
> >
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