Good idea... there could be some new "frame" object, which, if you had one in a patcher, would make the parent morph into a panel containing whatever was in the frame. This would make it easy to throw comments around too.
One slight complication is how the parent text should be dealt with (such as "pd my-graphic-subpatch"). If that text is larger than the box, I suppose the thing is just to extent the right edge of the box to hold the text.
Perhaps needless to say, the reason I've held off on doing something like this so far is fear of doing it wrong and being stuck keeping everything compatible. The good news is, that with the current scheme, the "frame" could just default to the whole window area so that I could introduce the frame in an easy-to-manage, backward-compatible way.
cheers Miller
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:22:44PM -0500, Mark Khemma wrote:
Hello,
I don't know if this is possible (because my pd development skills are null), but is there a way for you developers to code a specific box which the sliders/bangs/etc could be set in so that when you look at the parent abstraction, it will look exactly like how you set it up in the child rather than appearing all scrunched up? The box could set the pixel dimensions of the parent object in some way, and things that the user didn't want to show in the parent could be left outside of the box. If it could be done then the pd-design/layout would look much cleaner and much more flexible. I hope this makes sense to more than just me. -Mark .K
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