Wow, the magicglass feature is really nice. I just have one comment about it: it would be nice to have it flash whenever a new message came in. For example, if you stick it below a metro, it'll just say bang, so you don't know if its a stream of bangs, or just one bang. Having the text change color or the background each time a new message came in would show that info. In pddp/print I made it background flash yellow whenever a bang came in.
(and a random aside, perhaps you'd be interested in getting Pd to use the GTK open panel? I've always hated the Tcl/Tk one).
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