--- On Mon, 2/8/10, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com wrote:
From: Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com Subject: [PD] shouldn't message boxes work as gui elements? To: "PD list" pd-list@iem.at Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 6:25 PM Hi,
I don't know if this is already being addressed in the rewrite-gui version...
I've always wondered why message boxes are not treated as gui elements, like number and symbol boxes, that is:
- they do not graph on parent
- they do not have a properties dialog with at least a send
and receive symbol
Is there some particular reason why it has been decided not to treat (or allow treating) message boxes as gui elements, or is it simply that it has never been felt as a priority to implement this feature? I mean, would it imply any drawback?
I've thought about that, too. I made a feature request for an object (ID: 2799270) that would combine my_canvas with the message box's features. (Although now that I think about it, it should probably only have one inlet that handles all the GUI-specific messages, like [bng] does, and be visually different than a message box by default.)
As for nonlocal send and receive on the current msg box: you've already got a nonlocal send by starting the message box with a semicolon. I like that a lot more than nonlocal send/receive names that are hidden away in a properties dialog. (But unfortunately, there's no nonlocal receive for msg boxes.)
-Jonathan
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