--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PD] comment connection
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Ed Kelly" <[email protected]>, "PD List" <[email protected]>
> 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:
1. 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.
2. Dynamic multi-line text in a gop subpatch.
3. 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.)
4. 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.)
5. 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
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