Hello there,
I am trying to find a way to change a comment box via messages. The point is to avoid symbol boxes to make it look better in the GUI.
Does somebody know a way to achieve that?
Cheers, Josh

@Jinkgo I don't think it is possible, but maybe you can use the canvas object instead?

Hey @Ingox, thanks for the answer. The thing is that I am using the patch in a vst plugin with a jpeg as a background. It would look nicer if you have the letters directly on the background instead of in a white box on the background. and the text has to be changeable. I dont know how you would use the canvas object to avoid that?

@Jinkgo Another possibility would be using data structures, but the options to display text are somewhat limited there...

if you could use a canvas, the size of the canvas can be small enough to hide behind the label text

@Balwyn @Jinkgo Yes, if you set size width and height all to 1 (the minimum) and shift the label to cover it. But as you know where the canvas will be on the jpeg you could colour match the single pixel to the jpeg as well, so that it is invisible even when there is no label.
David.

Yes that would be a solution for the background. But then I still have the problem that the text has to be changeable. You can load audio files in my patch and the names of the patch should appear as a text. I need a way to change the text in the comment box without touching it.

@Jinkgo Give the canvas a "receive symbol" in its properties....... and then you can send it the label text directly......
Here is [l2s] for vanilla........ l2s.pd
David.

@whale-av All these years I've been changing spaces to a non-breaking space alt+0160 and I could have been using [l2s]
Thank you

@Balwyn You are very welcome. Credit to @cuinjune is due for putting in the work for a vanilla version.
The serious external writing in the 2000's suffers from its own success. There is so much great stuff to trawl through and remember!
David.

i use [l2s] and [s2l] a lot recently. @whale-av i did not know that there is a vanilla version of [l2s]. thanks for that.
is there perhaps a vanilla [s2l] too (i am fine with using the external, but still)?

@Jona All work by @cuinjune I think......
You need [s2f] for [s2l] to work, but you could embed it as a sub-patch.
[l2s] [s2l] [s2f]
ls2_etc.zip
Let me know if something else is missing.
David.

@Jinkgo I just noticed while working on another project in vanilla, that the arguments have changed for the colour of the label.
So for vanilla it seems the second argument is unused, and the 3rd argument is the label colour......
whatever.zip
David.