[PD] Problem with this (involved) abstraction for XY

[rolfm at dds.nl]

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay schreef op 30-08-2023 9:27:
> Dear Miller and Christof
> 
> I’m sorry to be the cause of pain - I will amend the patch now but
> what is strange in this one is that recoding it actually changes its
> behaviour.
> 
> In all cases, I wish I had seen the changelog entry that would tell me
> how the hidden but essential donecanvasdialog settings / behaviour has
> changed. In all case, I hope this unexpected behaviour report is
> somewhat helpful.


WHERE IS THIS CHANGELOG ENTRY TO BE FOUND?

ROLF


> I know my desire to stay vanilla complicates things too, but again, so
> many combinations of hardware and oses I think might justify my
> self-inflicted pain
> 
> p
> 
>> On 29 Aug 2023, at 23:36, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Sigh.
>> 
>> @Miller Can we please finally get 
>> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/627? This PR has been 
>> sitting around for more than 4 years now. In the meantime, people kept 
>> abusing the private "donecanvasdialog" message in place of a better 
>> and officially supported alternative, and they will continue to do 
>> so...
>> 
>> Christof
>> 
>> On 30.08.2023 00:14, Pierre Alexandre Tremblay wrote:
>>> Ok a lot more investigations later, I have isolated the change of 
>>> behaviour.
>>> 
>>> donecanvasdialog 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>>> 
>>> Which was used to reset the patcher’s sub patchers at the top left is 
>>> corrupting the ability for a struct to broadcast its click through a 
>>> graph. Now, can anyone on the Pd dev confirm this?
>>> 
>>> How to reproduce:
>>> 
>>>> https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/10854/xy-abstraction-to-get-mouse-click-and-drag-coordinates-vanilla
>>> 
>>> In pd 0.53.2 it works
>>> 
>>> In pd 0.54.0 it doesn’t receive the click from the #0-rectangle (so 
>>> it draws and emits nothing)
>>> 
>>> To fix it, remove top left the donecanvasdialog elements (2 of them)
>>> 
>>> Then reinstantiate the 3 pd Subpatches on the right
>>> 
>>> (Or you can just try the one I attach)
>>> 
>>> It is not fixed completely yet but the click gets through now. I 
>>> really wonder what has changed there…
>>> 
>>> Any pointer (pun intended) welcome
>>> 
>>> p
>>> 
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