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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em sex., 19 de nov. de 2021 às 16:00, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
escreveu:

> I think the reason is that the IEM GUI objects have been designed as
> externals and just happened to get included into Pd vanilla.


yup

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.
>

thought so, and same goes for messages, comments, arrays and graph

well, just wanted to make sure there was no particular reason for this. and
yeah, I would like that specially for gatom boxes.

now, thinking about the documentation, I felt like I needed to explain why
things are the way they are, but it's arbitrarity...

cheers
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