Hello all

Im trying to make a graph-on-parent object style tracker interface and i want to use multiple copies. This makes it hard to hack pd to do mouse clicks inside of the tracker with a [send pd], even when i name the canvases separately with a
[ namecanvas $0-tracker-blah ]. Is there some way that the canvas can tell that ive clicked inside of it so that I can let the tracker sort of "select" whichever one is being clicked in?

Thank you

If you have [namecanvas $0-tracker-blah], then it should be [send $0-tracker-blah], not [send pd].

right sorry thats what i have. ill try to upload an example of what im trying to do

hey so i kind of figured out a way to do this but not 100%. basically whenever a message is received from the GUI of a particular graph-on-parent window it sets a [value] that records whichever window is selected. I made a little patch breaking this concept down if you open the graph-on-parents you can see how it works.

It would still be nice to be able to listen to mouse clicks only within a particular GOP window so that the user doesnt have to change a parameter in order to select the window.

edit: sorry file got zipped funny

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/GOP-test.zip

Okay. Well, maybe it's because I've never really used trackers before, but I'm still not entirely clear what kind of interaction you're looking for. Maybe you could describe the interface and how the user interacts with it?

basically its a bunch of number boxes where each column represents a note and each row represents a beat/ step. What i want from this interaction is the ability to click on a number box and then use the arrows to "select" adjacent boxes. This way one could enter a note into a cell, press the down key and the box below it will be clicked on so that the user may simply type in a number into the box.

The only way that ive gotten it to do that so far is to wait for a number to arrive from one of the number box's associated sends and use that box as the selected one, sending click messages to the canvas to select adjacent boxes. I would like it if i could just click on the box without changing the number and it will know which one ive selected.

You might want to try installing the iemguts library. I've just recently looked at it myself, and there is an object called [canvasobjectposition] that can retrieve the position of objects based on their index. You could use that to determine the position of your abstractions and determine if your clicks fall within the boundaries of the gop box. I haven't messed around with it enough to know how tricky that would be, though.