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From: João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com To: katja katjavetter@gmail.com; "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at; Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [PD] how to capture window-related mouse-events when toxy is discontinued?
The toxy lib is discontinued in Pd-extended 0.43. Tried to find an alternative, asked on the Pd forum. No solution so far. I explored gem for GUI purposes, but this introduces even more dependencies. Data-structures seem an option at first sight, but can not provide large reactive area's (only the center pixel of an object is reactive).
Are you in edit mode in that video? If so, data structures will react
accordingly.
In run mode there is a way to make the entire polygon reactive (instead of
just a
little 5x5 pixel "hot spot"), but it's hacky.
It can happen that data structures (tcl/tk) can be a bit heavy to manipulate, and will cause dropouts.
If it's in edit mode, the "whole polygon" will create trouble when clicking it to position an object, no?
Well, instead of "whole polygon" I should say "all the visualizations associated with a scalar". In edit mode you'll get a bounding box around the scalar and you can drag it just as any pd object. The [struct] outlet will notify you with a "displace" msg when you do this, and you can use the pointer element from that message to get the current x and y for that scalar.
-Jonathan
unless that's not a data structure, but a canvas with a small selection square.