as if i remember Max in the olden days the inlet and outlet descriptors for objects were listed in the left bottom corner of the window. possible to give a choice for either way or is that too much coding overhead?
scott On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > > To: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> > > Cc: pd-list List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:05 PM > > Subject: Re: tooltips in pd-extended 0.43 > > > > > > 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. > > I do, too, but every GUI toolkit and its brother hovers them to the side > of the > current mouse location. > > -Jonathan > > > > > .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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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