On Wed, 5 May 2004, Yves Degoyon wrote:
  

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
    

on [bng] and [tgl] it's essentially the same as a bang message; however
for other IEM objects it is not the case: it's actually a way to implement
the handling of mouse clicks. In IMPD this is going away right now,
because the server part of those objects won't directly know anything GUI
like mouseclicks. The "click" messages still could be supported as a
server->client->server detour if necessary.
      

unclear, of course, the "click" message is very useful for many
graphical objects ( cooled~; sonogram~, ... )
i dunno why you try to over-simplify things.
    

Well, I don't claim I have the whole picture, which is why I asked the
question in the first place, and you didn't reply to the original query
anyway. I can accept that you snap at me like that, but what I don't
accept is that you don't offer an explanation as to why the "click"
messages are particularly useful to you.