Hello. Is there a possibility to remove the small blue square selection from GUI objects in Purr Data ? Many thanks.

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@Boran-Robert That's a tricky object:

1. It's bounding box defaults to being smaller than the drawn rectangle, so it doesn't work like every other gui object in Pd.

2. The small blue square is a workaround for that. (I assume you are in editmode, as it disappears in run mode.)

One possibility-- I could resize the square and move it to be inside the drawn rectangle. Would that solve your problem?

The other possibility is to simply make the entire drawn rectangle draggable. But Pd users are like magnets to obscure features-- I have no doubt someone has found a use for this strange behavior...

@jancsika The very small square inside my A square is not a problem. I can make it 1x1 pixel. The problem is the additional blue squares outside my A square GUI object. I understand the purpose of those but when i move pixel by pixel the entire A square it blocks my view. Maybe instead of removing them (that seem tricky) you can add some alpha general property that all additional blue squares become a little bit transparent. On the other hand i really like the dropdown object (very handy stuff) + i see Purr Data as a great improvement over Vanilla. Many thanks and for now i will manage somehow.

I'm talking about the blue square-- the "anchor" you can use to resize it.

Would it improve things if this blue square was always in the corner of the drawn rectangle of [cnv]?

It's easy to make it partly transparent, but it may be better to display it inside the main rectangle so it doesn't get in the way.

@jancsika I think it is better to display it inside the main rectangle. For the sizes of various canvas objects i just use the normal property.

I think draw anchor inside and make them half transparent would be a nice idea too.

@60hz Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem.

The difficulty with [cnv] is it that it has a "selection size" that is independent of the size of the drawn rectangle. Worse, it is the "selection size" and not the drawn rectangle which Pd counts as the bounding box for the rectangle. This means that in Pd Vanilla the drawn rectangle can extend arbitrarily past the bounds of a GOP rectangle, which is just plain bonkers.

I understand that for compatibility reason you cannot change a lot of the behavior for the "selection size" square, which is on of the many design lameness in vanilla gui.
But for the resize square that is new in purr data, adding a simply transparent square inside would make it pretty nice and usable.

or replace square with a kind of arrow:

@60hz Thanks. It should be a pretty easy change to one of those options.

@60hz An arrow design is elegant and better then the square.

@Boran-Robert True.

@jancsika Great. Also as we are talking about Gui of Purr data, I suggested another simple fix about text color separation in order to allow more various themes creation here https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/issues/689