Just to stir the pot, as it were :) - The 'f' message is intended to mean 'format' and could be expanded to specify font style and size, and/or other formatting info (perhaps even to suppress carriage return on semi, think of that!)
cheers Miller On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 02:48:30AM -0400, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > On 07/01/2013 09:04 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 2013-06-29 15:43, Roman Haefeli wrote: > >>I don't know any solution off-hand and I also don't know whether Pd > >>was designed with the possibility in mind to read patches with > >>[textfile]. I just want to have it mentioned. And yes, it does > >>break some of my patches (not that this would be a reason not go > >>forward and change Pd's file format). > >since my personal preferences for those "," appendices to objects go > >into the direction of using them for messages that the object itself > >can understand(e.g. > >#X obj 100 100 readsf~, open foo.wav; > >) i'd rather vote for keeping "meta"-messages (e.g. those that tell > >the GUI-renderer which color the object should have) separate. > > > >e.g. > >#X obj 100 100 readsf~; > >#G width 10; > > I second that vote, and also vote to never actually implement #G: > * as I've never seen a request for the feature of having a bunch of > differently colored object boxes in a patch > * since specifying width doesn't solve the problem of making > arbitrary line breaks in > comments without using a semicolon > * since specifying width can be done with a method for comments > * since the number of classes that create inside an object box and > which would benefit from resizable widths can > be counted on no fingers > * since specifying gui props with commas separated methods in an object > box allows the _user_ to specify both gui and state properties without > lifting their hands from the keyboard: > > [vsl, label look_ma_no_mouse, label_pos 20 20, size...] > > -Jonathan > > > > > > >oh btw, i really don't see a reason to use cryptic 'f' selectors, when > >we could use meaningful names like "width". > > > >fgamsdr > >IOhannes > > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > >Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > >Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > > >iEYEARECAAYFAlHRfl0ACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvRhVwCg6Rc8o/AGHKAmYAjOxuxXE0SG > >uEoAoLe4cy6BEikkMIsytCFRFi294cPm > >=WYqL > >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Pd-dev mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
