--- On Mon, 7/11/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Ivica Ico Bukvic" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 4:24 AM > > On Jul 10, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: [...] > > Where would one define the standard function? > > On page 32 of this document: > http://peabody.sapp.org/class/dmp2/read/WritingMax_MSPExternals.pdf > > You can see the 'assist' message. If I'm understanding this correctly, "addmess" is analogous to class_addmethod (I guess if we made it standard, we could do class_addtooltip or something). But then this would break [list], for example, or any object that currently has an anything method defined. Or am I misunderstanding the model? I mean, what happens in Max if the user happens to send the message "assist" to an inlet? -Jonathan > The Max GUI sends > the 'assist' > message to an objectclass when you hover above an inlet or > outlet, > then its up to the objectclass to implement a function > which copies > the text into a provider buffer. Then the Max GUI > displays that text. > > I guess we might as well just copy the interface of > Max/MSP. It seems > very Max/Pd-ish, and straightforward. > > >> Pd would > >> then check whether an object had that function > when it > >> loaded the > >> binary, and if so register it in the tooltips. > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
