[PD] inlet names (bad?) practice?

[Jonathan Wilkes]

> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 1:57:43 PM EST, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com> wrote: 
 > Thanks for the pointers, I don't see this implemented in Extended (42/43) or in Purr Data by extension. By readng the discussion, the patch was never included in the distribution, right?
AFAICT, the example code linked there has never been included in any implementation.
Pd-l2ork 1.0 has tooltips, but they don't use any of the code in that link.
-Jonathan

> So it was more like a plan than a reality?
Em ter., 2 de mar. de 2021 às 15:20, Claude Heiland-Allen <claude at mathr.co.uk> escreveu:

On 02/03/2021 17:45, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list wrote:
> > On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 11:10:36 AM EST, Alexandre Torres Porres 
> <porres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I was asking people on facebook where did they get the idea of 
> putting names in inlets/outlets, like: [inlet 
> this-inlet-controls-frequency].
>
> Not sure. But A_DEFSYM and A_DEFFLOAT are implemented in a way that 
> allows an arbitrary number of extra float/symbol arguments, so it 
> could be `[inlet this inlet controls frequency]`. Or following the 
> `[get]` and `[set]` pattern-- `[inlet - this inlet controls 
> frequency]` to skip over the first arg that is currently used for 
> up/downsampling.
>
> Someone asked on the Purr Data list about this. It would be easy to 
> implement, but it doesn't cover the case of setting a description for 
> the object itself. Plus I'd much rather just leverage the 
> documentation index in the GUI to look up tooltip data.
>
> -Jonathan
https://download.puredata.info/dev/InletDescriptions




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