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?

scott

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:




----- 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.

I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side of the
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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