I think that we should be pushing GUI stuff to the Tcl side of things as
much as possible, plus I prefer the current tooltip display down on the
lower right.  I find that popups right next to the mouse are often annoying.

.hc

On 03/06/2012 02:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]>
>> To: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 2:53 PM
>> Subject: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43
>>
>> Hello,
>>      Hans asked me to write up an explanation of the new tooltips in 
>> pd-extended 
>> 0.43.
>> Attached are some patches that outline how they work.
>> Just open tips-help.pd.
>>
>> Tooltips get their tip information from the [pd META] subpatch inside the 
>> help 
>> patch for 
>>
>> the object.  So if you want to have tooltips for your externals, or set of 
>> abstractions, make 
>>
>> sure you have complete help patches for all of your object classes.
>>
>> Hans-- Ivica modified my original patch in the most recent build of pd-l2ork 
>> so 
>> that the 
>>
>> tips follow the mouse, and he put the Enter/Leave logic on the c side of 
>> things.
>>
>> -Jonathan


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