--- On Mon, 7/11/11, Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca wrote:
From: Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features To: "pd-list" pd-list@iem.at Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 6:42 PM On 2011-07-11 12:06, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
But I'm not sure where to store the tooltip string...
Not sure if that's what you mean, but in max the assist method receives a number corresponding to the inlet or outlet and returns a pointer to the appropriate string, so the string is already stored somewhere in the memory allocated to the object.
Ok, I see.
I don't get the idea of having a new method that's supposed to be hidden from the user (but really isn't) for every object that wants tooltips; in some cases it would subtly change the function of the object class, like [bang] and [route]. (Aside from crashing Pd, "dsp" isn't such a big deal because there isn't much of a need for an object that takes a signal AND parses arbitrary selectors, esp. on the same inlet.) Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if [textfile] output lists, and there was a [routelist] in Pd vanilla...
Did desiredata have tooltips? If so, how were they implemented?
-Jonathan
Martin