On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
I'm not doing it that way. I'm looking up the xlet info in the help
patch in [pd META] when the xlet is created, then putting the relevant
text as an argument to the command that gets "bind"ed to the xlet tag's
<Enter> and <Leave> events.
Better to just add a few lines of tcl to gather the relevant info from your
help docs.
I wonder whether there might be any other reasons to have an assist-method
in a way that can't be done in any other way. What are the possible use
for the tooltips ?
1. Tell the name of the inlet. This is not an info already present in
the class, and usually not in the docs either.
2. Tell the list of methods.
3. Tell the value last put in an inlet, if it's currently stored (and
if the concept makes sense for that particular inlet).
4. Other. (which uses ?)
I think that you are mostly only thinking about #2, and Günter's system
was only taking care of #1, and I think that there was a pd-list
discussion about something like #3 a long time ago.
I don't know what's available in MAX, and I don't think that it
necessarily has to be implemented in the same way.
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