I'm designing a patch to be used by others, and there is a canvas that worries me. It holds important buttons and triggers that I DONT want anyone to touch, because they are controlled by software independently.

Is there a way I can make canvases "view only" so that people don't accidentally press buttons? Maybe an invisible layer of some sort which shields clicks from activating buttons/triggers/etc.?

Thank you,
Sebastian

Yep. Just stick a big [hslider] behind all the gui objects that you don't want people to interact with. This works because if you have two gui objects overlapping and click on them, Pd will give that click to the one in the back.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/gui_hack.pd

ha ha, neat