Hey Hans,
I REALLY like the idea. I can see how the property dialog could work for an abstraction, maybe the "properties" GUI would be a hidden GOP in a subpatch? you just switch on a "properties" check box so that the subpatch gets rendered in the properties window. If the "help" or "properties" hooks just sent a message to a special receive in the abstraction then you could make them do whatever you want, like make a subpatch in the abstraction visible. "vis 1", "help" could also do whatever you want...
.b.
hans@eds.org wrote:
I am sitting here with a performance venue with pounding bass after running my Swirler installation, and I just had a thought: what if there was a generic "properties" hook just like the "help" hook? Then you could have a Properties panel for any patch. I think that Properties panels should be written in Pd anyway, this way we could write elaborate GUI objects with data structures which have settable and storable properties via a properties panel.
Sound good?
.hc
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