On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:07 +0200, Christof Ressi wrote:
but more interestingly it is the lower of the two slider that receives the mouse clicks while the upper is visible. Is this intentional?
This is a fundamental issue with Pd's GUI. The first matching object in the list receives the event. Since objects are drawn in ascending order, the backmost object will receive the event. I find this very annoying,
I've learned to appreciate it as a feature. It's counter-intuitive, because one would expect that what is seen can be manipulated. I see that aspect. But on the other hand, the current behavior allows for a lot of neat tricks to create fancy GUI widgets.
Roman