sorry sent this to cdr directly...

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From: Mischan Gholizadeh Toosarani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04.10.2007 23:33
Subject: Re: [nova-dev] gui objects
To: cdr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


2007/10/4, cdr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> the fact that [i 3] will show the init value, for as long as the patch is 
> open, is pretty unintuitive to the idea of 'visual patcher'. since the visual 
> is wrong.
>
>
> so yes, i think the 3 should update, and you should be able to drag it with a 
> mouse..

i see your point, but i think dragging the init value of a float or
int to set its current state mixes abstraction levels...

my (absolutely criticizable) suggestion would be:
if you need direct patch-ui-interaction: use a number box (with a
second inlet, to simulate number storage behaviour even further).
Initvalue could be assigned with a loadbang->set.

if you just need storage, let our pyqt interface catch a mouseover or
something like that and a popup shows you the current state of the
object. The Gui can access gobjs directly. This is used for in/outlet
description of objects (like in [osc~] -> frequency, phase) already,
so it should be easy to implement. Maybe the statusbar is a better
place for this...
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