[PD] documenting messages to/from Pd and dynamic patching

[João Pais]

> Em sex., 26 de nov. de 2021 às 20:19, João Pais <jmmmpais at gmail.com> 
> escreveu:
>
>     I don't see a mention to these messages: mouse, mouseup, mousedown,
>     relocate. And also all other messages related to gui stuff.
>
>
> yeah, I didn't put it. It felt like something hard to document and for 
> more extreme cases. And now that Christof says I should really keep 
> out of this dark corner, I wonder if I did right.

I don't remember now exactly why these methods are "dangerous" and 
"unofficial" (it was discussed already a lot in the list anyway), but 
I've been using them for more than 15 years with no big issues. If any 
of these methods is cut, then my patches won't work anymore - hopefully 
someone else's as well.

>     It could also be clearly mentioned that subpatches receive
>     messages sent
>     to pd-[subpatch], and abstractions are named [abstraction].pd (if I'm
>     recalling correctly) - unless there is a namecanvas used in those.
>
>
> how isn't it clearly mentioned?

The first one is mentioned in [pd Dynamic-Patching], although it might 
be easier to understand if there is an example immediately under the 
text. But there are enough examples of [s pd-xxxx] in the patch anyway 
to deduce it.

The second isn't mentioned at all, the search results for "abstraction" 
and ".pd" return elements in other types of contexts.
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