On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Nov 20, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Because objectboxes and messageboxes and atomboxes have become opaque, so
the stacking order of wires does matter more. They have to stay on top in
order to be more visible, yet the pd architecture is not sophisticated
enough to allow pd to force all of its externals to draw all boxes _under_
the wires.
Well, its easy enough to raise all wires. That's what Pd-extended does, but
there are a couple bugs with that...
Btw I don't mean that DD does anything in particular with it. It's just
that with the sys_vgui() free-for-all, the Pd GUI itself has no knowledge
of which canvasitems have been created last, and so it can't call the
'lower' method (of a tk canvas object) on those items. Using the DD API,
it could be done using the same abstraction layer that is used for
zoomability, but I don't think I have done anything about keeping boxes
below wires.
Given that, your "raise all_cords" is the best solution imho, as the Pd
GUI has total control over wires, not boxes, therefore it's much easier to
put wires over boxes than to put boxes below wires.
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