is there a way to surpress mouse actions in data structure arrays? i am afraid, the answer is no, but i thought, maybe one of the DS wizards here in the forum knows a way to achieve this.

just to clarify, i want to use a square (filledpolygon) as array-element to build a background for each cell of a step-sequencer. since it should only be a design element, it should not get any mouse events. adding the -x flag to the filledpolygon doesn't do the trick and [plot] doesn't accept that flag (respectivley, it has another function there).

thanks in advance!

@toxonic [filledpolygon -x ..........] with -x as the first argument works for me in extended and vanilla.
David.

mhh, strange - dosn't work for me as array element....
array_test_-x-flag.pd

edit: as a workaround, i could declare "float y" in the array template and use the "-y" flag (with some imaginary variable assigned) in the [plot] object, but you would still see the arrows when hovering over the array elements....

@toxonic I see [plot] is the culprit.
If you move them outside the Gop then they can no longer be accessed with the mouse.........
[plot test_array 0 0 0 -3 1] for example.....
You could even shift the Gop out of view....... xy.pd
David.

@whale-av thanks david, that should work. the downside though is, that, if you put this patch inside an abstraction or a subpatch, which itself is in GOP mode, you need to put the paint subpatch into the gop area too, because otherwise the data won't be displayed. but that's not such a big deal in my case, since you can adjust the GOP x and y values and size of the paint subpatch, so that it's just a slim stripe right under the displayed array.