Hey,
So there has been a revived discussion of adding "tooltip" support to inlets/outlets, based on Günter's old patch. I think we should open up the discussion again to see if we can come up with a solution that Miller would accept. I believe his original objection was based on the fact that the patch added a record to the t_class struct.
So I was thinking that instead of storing the tooltip data in t_class, it could be stored using a custom struct like t_inletdescription that was then added to object's class. Another possibility would be to add it to the t_text/t_object struct which every object has.
I guess the advantage of putting it into t_class is that there would only be one copy of it. That makes sense since every instance should need the same data. Having it elsewhere would mean multiple copies of the same data, AFAICT.
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