On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Federico wrote:
here there could be a kind of "sub-command" that tells pd of this data (I would better name it META-data) : #X obj <X> <Y> helloWorldAbs; #X text <X> <Y> #T tooltip for this object; #X text <X> <Y> #C <COLOR>; [...] a user that doesn't have this feature just should ignore or delete that crap in front of the object.... or if he is geeky enough, strip out metadata with sed or perl :=)
The fact that #V (or #T or #C) doesn't exist in Miller's Pd will already strip all those directives because the #V receiver doesn't exist there. The idea of superimposing all those directives as comments on top of the object they apply to, is not much more than a joke of yours.
The only way troublesome incompatibility would be introduced, is if there is no terminating semicolon on those extra directives, but that's not what I have implemented in DesireData.
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