On 06/20/2012 02:42 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
________________________________ From: András Murányi ...and it would be lovely to have the text appear in a tooltip when mousing over the inlet/outlet in the parent patch! The drawback mentioned by Phil could be pretty annoying though. Question 1.: What's up with tooltips in pd right now? I couldn't find it out from the list archives.
They will display for the object text, based on the description of the object inside the META subpatch of its help patch. They will display for xlets, showing the types of messages accepted, based on the META subpatch of its help patch.
Question 2.: What if the parser would explicitly stop parsing elements when it finds ";#" and would use the remaining part as a comment/tooltip/whatever? Could this change break anything in real life?
[;# obscure example; but i think matju's #V is a better, more readable solution that could also be used for lots of other graphical properties, and would safely be ignored by older versions(
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:-D took me a while to understand that one, but yeah, thanks for pointing out the pitfalls...