removing edit focus on atom when hiding gop using donecanvasdialog

Reply to removing edit focus on atom when hiding gop using donecanvasdialog on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:21:18 GMT

tildebrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:21:18 GMT

Hello, I've got some nested donecanvasdialogs controlling subpatches which I'm using to control different parameters of the same job. I'm using floatatoms to enter the values but when I close the subpatches (using escape via keyname) I get...
(Tcl) INVALID COMMAND NAME: invalid command name ".x96979f400.c"
while executing
"$tkcanvas focus $tag"
(procedure "pdtk_text_editing" line 4)
invoked from within
"pdtk_text_editing .x96979f400 {.x969564000.t967c0a380} 1 "
("uplevel" body line 53)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $docmds"(Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: bad window path name ".x96979f400.c"
while executing
"selection clear $tkcanvas"
(procedure "pdtk_text_editing" line 3)
invoked from within
"pdtk_text_editing .x96979f400 {} 0 "
("uplevel" body line 1)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 $docmds"

This doesn't happen when I click outside the floatatom to deselect it before pressing escape. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get the floatatom to lose edit focus after I've committed the input?

Thank you in advance

Reply to removing edit focus on atom when hiding gop using donecanvasdialog on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:18:18 GMT

tildebrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:18:18 GMT

editFocusError.pd

Here is a patch demonstrating the error message. Warning: PD requires a quit and restart after the error.

Reply to removing edit focus on atom when hiding gop using donecanvasdialog on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:21:40 GMT

tildebrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:21:40 GMT

for those who don't want to get their console mucky...

Reply to removing edit focus on atom when hiding gop using donecanvasdialog on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:26:28 GMT

whale-av — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:26:28 GMT

@tildebrow Not getting such errors in windows with pd extended or vanilla..... but I think it is not working as you expect either.

It is easier to do this though to hide the window......... hmm.pd
To remove edit focus before closing also send "editmode 0"

So
[;
pd-$2-subpatch editmode 0, vis $1(

If you want it in editmode as it opens..
[;
pd-$2-subpatch editmode $1, vis $1(

David.

Reply to removing edit focus on atom when hiding gop using donecanvasdialog on Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:01:31 GMT

tildebrow — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:01:31 GMT

Thank you @whale-av, that certainly helps. I didn't know about edit mode and although on my computer and version of PD it doesn't remove edit focus from the floatatom it is something I'll find useful in future. The subpatch opening in a new window and being closed using esc even when floatatom has edit focus does work and I don't get the error message so thank you.
escToClose.pd

I needed the floatatom to appear as a gop rather than in a separate window but I think I'll just have a commit button to take focus off the floatatom and hide the gop and floatatom input can provide a preview of the result before commit.

Thanks as always, much appreciated.