First, many thanks to the Purr Data developers for their work in keeping the spirit of pd-extended going!

I liked and used the [cyclone/comment] object, which was 'accidentally abandoned' and still absent from version 2.4.0. Any chance it could be added to the next Purr Data release?

The issue is known - https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues/78

@DrDoug That's a particularly difficult class to port.

Reasons:

• has a complicated argument interface and widget behavior (uses a Function key to switch between widget states), which looks to be completely different than Max's comment interface
• is difficult to get the exact same placement as in tcl/tk
• is almost guaranteed to generate different output on different platforms

The first two points are possible to get around, but the last one seems impossible. There's simply no way on a given platform to predict the metrics of an arbitrary font on the other platforms supported by Purr Data. Thus a [cyclone/comment] object positioned "just right" inside a GOP window could have the text overlapping on someone else's machine. (In fact there are lots of Pd patches that feature overlapping <ctrl-5> comments for just this reason.)

I probably won't be porting it any time soon, but if anyone else wants to take a shot in the near future let me know.

Many thanks for the explanation - and for your work on the program.

I can still use pd-extended for patches using this object. What might be useful in new patches would be objects like bang and toggle with separate horizontal and vertical sizes, but that would be a wish, not a porting issue.

@DrDoug I think [ggee/toddle] is the equivalent of [bng] with independent width and height settings.

I'm still [cyclone/comment] fan.

Only writing this for let @jancsika know..