2018-04-01 18:51 GMT-03:00 IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig@iem.at:
like mostly, i'm opposing. this has been discussed about 15 years ago, and my arguments still stand (mainly: consistency with dollar-parsing throughout Pd)
Hi, just so I understand the issue, what complications would derive from this inconsistency? I'm cool if this has been discussed before and that this is the way it needs to be, but I'm just really curious.
apart from that, i wonder how you imagine your "external" (object) to fix Pd's message-box. for an external, $0 is expanded as you'd like it automatically anyhow.
not sure I get the question or what you want me to respond. Yeah, $0 normally expands it, so I figure it wouldn't be hard to do that. Well, if you're curious about the design, it'd be much like the same as a message box, but being able to expand $0, surely I'm thinking about other ideas, cause only this would be too little, for me, to motivate an external, so I'm guessing other things like being able to set the size and color and stuff.
cheers