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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: pd-announce pd-announce@iem.at Cc: Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:02 PM Subject: [PD] [PD-announce] new editing features of Pd-extended 0.43, now in beta!
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• Autotips gives you tips about what an object does, what its inlet expects, and what comes out of the outlets.
You can also make manual tips that are basically like notifications to a canvas:
[tgl] | [tip $1 Hello World( | [send thisCanvas]
[namecanvas thisCanvas]
The tip will try to stay out of the way of the mouse. This is a nice tool to design tutorials that can dynamically give tips as the user clicks on stuff, for example. You can also generate the tips from a gui plugin-- might be interesting to make a "patching clock" that sends a timed message to the canvas that currently has focus: "Hey, you've been patching for 20 minutes straight... take a break!"
-Jonathan