This is a page to work out how to best implement inlet text descriptions (aka tooltips). The idea is to be able to attach a bit of descriptive text to an inlet, then have that text displayed when the mouse hovers over the inlet. That text could either be a displayed in a 'tooltip' mini pop-up, a status bar at the bottom of a window, or other possibilities.

Günter Geiger originally wrote code to do this, Tim Blechmann ported that code to 0.38. Chris ~McCormick? has ported it to 0.42.5.

Patches

• port of günter geiger's tooltips for pd 0.38

• Tooltips patch for 0.42-5

Discussions

• |PD-dev| tooltips, from 2003

• |PD-dev| tooltips idea from 2009