Hey folks. Im trying to make some new interface objects with the really cool graph on parent feature. Unfortunately there seems to be some not so cool bugs along with it. Im trying to avoid using the [popup] object because it is very big and clunky. I am currently working on a dropdown menu that uses the donecanvas message to pd. Basically it resizes the canvas window to include some symbol boxes and buttons that are used to select the next symbol to display at the top and then resizes to only display 1 symbol box. Only thing is that the other symbol boxes are left drawn on the object even after the canvas is resized to exclude them. This should be clear if you check out the patch. Is there some way to refresh the interface so that it will get rid of these annoying leftover GUIs? Could this maybe be the purpose of the illusive restore command given in /pd_msg/0.all_msgs?

I included some of my abstractions because i cant remember if i included them or not.

If this doesnt work i think ill just have to suck it up and use [popup]

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/mymenu.zip

there is another object for this purpose, it's called [tof/pmenu] in pd-exended. when you hit a bang it gives you a right-click-menu. it's a lot less chunky than [popup], but it freezes the audio output on my machine while the menu is open.

i know the problem with the graphics left on the screen after resizing the GOP canvas. i think it is a bug, but i think there's workarounds also. would be awesome if you could get it to work!

good luck on finding a solution there!

hmmm. That looks like a good object except that it also doesnt work for me. Everything seems fine, the menu shows up when i bang the object but when i make a selection i get the error "pmenu0x12e42c8: no such object". I looked in the tof library and also found menubutton, which made a similar error "menubutton0x12f1dd8: no such object". Pretty obnoxious considering that the objects are definitely found in the file path and so are their helpfiles. Seeing as how i want to distribute my patch it would be nice to only use more reliable objects :/

anyone know how to the the tof objects to work?

strange. they work just fine here on osx snow leopard with standard pd-ext.

[popup] used to give similar errors on Windows. I think Saturno fixed [popup], but it looks like the tof stuff has the same bug.

tof/pmenu should be fixed in pd 0.43
You will have 2 outlets, the left one gives the index number and the right one a symbol.

ok so i tried installng pd 40.3 without any luck. Got some strange messages about "confuddled-mass-of-numbers.dll is missing."

However that doesnt matter because I figured out how to refresh the canvas! It was so obvious i felt silly when i thought of it: i just sent the canvas a [vis 0, vis 1< msg and it refreshes the gui without any nasty stuff left over it just makes the gui blink but thats no big deal. Check it out in the attachment.

One final question. As you can see i have a little button thing hanging off the end of the menu. While this isnt so terrible I want to try and embed that part inside the object to make it cleaner. Is there a way to find the name of the parent canvas that an object is located in? Such as if i have the [mymenu] object inside of another patch named [randompatch.pd] is there a way for me to get the name of "randompatch.pd" from INSIDE of mymenu?

Thanks for the advice on tof but like i said i am trying to only use objects that are stable on the current version of pd.

forgot the attachment!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/mymenu2.zip

I don't know of an object that does it, but you could just pass it on as an argument.

^good idea. thanks for the help you all