as if i remember Max in the olden days the inlet and outlet descriptors for objects were listed in the left bottom corner of the window. possible to give a choice for either way or is that too much coding overhead?
I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side of the
----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
> Cc: pd-list List <pd-list@iem.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:05 PM
> Subject: Re: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
>
>
> I think that we should be pushing GUI stuff to the Tcl side of things as
> much as possible, plus I prefer the current tooltip display down on the
> lower right. I find that popups right next to the mouse are often annoying.
current mouse location.
-Jonathan
>
> .hc
>
> On 03/06/2012 02:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com>
>>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>
>>> Cc:
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:53 PM
>>> Subject: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Hans asked me to write up an explanation of the new tooltips in
> pd-extended
>>> 0.43.
>>> Attached are some patches that outline how they work.
>>> Just open tips-help.pd.
>>>
>>> Tooltips get their tip information from the [pd META] subpatch inside
> the help
>>> patch for
>>>
>>> the object. So if you want to have tooltips for your externals, or set
> of
>>> abstractions, make
>>>
>>> sure you have complete help patches for all of your object classes.
>>>
>>> Hans-- Ivica modified my original patch in the most recent build of
> pd-l2ork so
>>> that the
>>>
>>> tips follow the mouse, and he put the Enter/Leave logic on the c side
> of things.
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>
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