Hi list, Here's my first attempt at some c code to create a "get" method to query the properties of a canvas. I included the entire g_canvas.c from 0.43 (haven't started using git and diff yet) and a demo patch with some helper abstractions. Some things that it does:

* [namecanvas] (and [sendcanvas]) are _actually_ obsolete * canvas environment variables available to the user (filename, dir, canvas-local paths, dollarzero) * parent attributes (like dollarzero) are gettable without having to give it as an argument to the abstraction * possible to find the toplevel canvas that contains "this" abstraction (plus making all kinds of "canvas-abs" like the list-abs lib) * ability to get gop status, coords values, patch screen position, abstraction's position on parent, and other goodies that are currently scattered all around external libraries with various interfaces * abstraction can get a list of all attributes (like dollarzero) from all the abstraction instances that exist. (Probably should institute patch 1403917 to make this rock-solid.) * parent args are gettable!

Things seem to work alright so far, but I'm not sure how to handle reentrancy. Also, I'm currently replying to queries using the attribute as a selector. The only model I had-- the [cnv] get_pos-- just sends the data, but it seems cleaner to send to one receive-symbol and [route] accordingly. (I also much prefer one "get" method to separate ones to access each attribute.)

-Jonathan