On Nov 5, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:

I think it would be possible to do something like that in Pd and the iemguis, since you can move them with messages.

There is an alpha version of [cursor] in today's build which will give you the mouse cursor position. I just got some ideas of how to do it better, so it should be better tomorrow. :)

If someone wants to try to do this, I am willing to do the work to fill in the gaps in Pd so that it's possible.

Hm, if it was possible to do in Pd I'd /absolutely, without a
doubt/ implement it. Cursor position is gettable with toxy, by the
way?

[tot] can get the mouse pointer posution, but only for when the mouse
pointer is in a window. The idea of [cursor] is to get the mouse
pointer coords always.

The iemguis allowing movement by messages is cool, but it wouldn't
help for regular objects of course. Offhand the pieces needed
would be: Query Pd for the IDs of the currently selected objects Query Pd for the position of an object id Move any object by message.

I guess you'd need namecanvas in every patch being manipulated (hm,
how would you capture the key commands? [key] needs focus, and
[hid] wouldn't know what's focused?)...

I meant start this for GUI objects not all objects (just yet).
That's a much bigger question, but I just thought a possibility
that I'll look into.

Also, if you are interested in more advanced GUI tweaks, check out
toxy, there is a lot of stuff you can do with it. There is not help
file for [tow] or [widget], so anything you might create would be a
vast improvement. [tot]'s help patch could really use more examples.
In Pd-extended, there are a bunch of examples in Help->Browser-

examples->toxy.

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