[PD] why not adding other boxes like gatom from objects?

[Christof Ressi]

I think he means creating a gatom by typing something in an object box. 
Like you said, you can create a nbx2 with [nbx] or a bang with [bng], 
but there is no way to do that for gatoms.

I think the reason is that the IEM GUI objects have been designed as 
externals and just happened to get included into Pd vanilla. The only 
way to create externals is via objects boxes.

gatoms, on the other hand, are really built-in objects and are created 
via dedicated canvas methods. There is no particular reason why they 
don't have proper creator names. I guess it's just not necessary. I 
don't think anyone finds typing [nbx] more convenient than Shift + Cmd + 
N, so why do this for gatoms?

Christof

On 19.11.2021 19:50, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> Am 19. November 2021 19:38:39 MEZ schrieb Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:
>> Hi, I wonder what's the reasoning to not be able to load something like a
>> gatom from an object.
> of course you can.
> after all nbx2 is just that: an 'object' that behaves like a gatom.
>
> OTOH I might not fully grasp what you mean with "able to load [...] a gatom"
>
>
> mfg.sfg.jfd
> IOhannes
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