Seeing this patch makes me want some kind of menu bar visible all the time (though closeable as well), along the top or side of the screen, showing the properties of the currently selected object, i think it would make editing much faster
I don't see why it would be helpful, for the following reasons:
much sense to repeat it again on top. it will just take space, a bit
unecessarily, I guess. redundancy isn't that efficient
make this utility as portable as possible. such a menu could be created
with a group of canvases+radios beneath it. but it seems to me too fiddly
and complicated to make compared to its benefits (I'm no programmer, can't
do tcl/tk)
you cannot send/receive any messages asking how wide a slider is, etc.
that's why it isn't already there. As I explain, it makes it a bit weirder
in the beggining. unfortunately the only thing that is possible to query
is the current position of a canvas.
Anyone interested in changing this? I mean, if tcl/tk can get the current
properties of objects, for sure a pd message would as well.