--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] comment connection To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "Ed Kelly" morph_2016@yahoo.co.uk, "PD List" pd-list@iem.at Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 1:49 AM On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Please define what you would consider an incentive (as
opposed to what you call a detail). I bet I'll be able to come up with at least five.
Well, first come with at least five things you'd like to do with comments modifiable like the messageboxes are, and we'll talk about that.
Five Things I'd do with Modifiable Comments:
- Print the current Pd and Tcl version in a patch. If I use
pddp/print then it's not cuttable/pastable, if I use msg box it makes it look like clicking it does something, and if I use [entry] it will be buggy, because [entry] is buggy.
Dynamic multi-line text in a gop subpatch.
Interactive comments that follow user action for a tutorial.
You can currently do this with dynamic patching but eventually you run out of space or have to do a GOP canvas and keep clearing it. (Again you could use a msg box but the border and visible xlets are distracting.)
- Not have to rely on [cnv] labels-- which look different on
different platforms like with [output~]-- for dynamic GUI labels. (Comments look different too, but not by such a large margin.)
- Dynamic ascii art without the distraction of the msg box
border.
There's also the separate matter of having the choice of font size/style, which can make a patch more readable. (I use cyclone/comment for the terms in the Pd glossary for that reason.)
-Jonathan