Brian H.

Just figuring out the [thispatcher] object and playing a little. My goal is to be able to add buttons to a interface to re-size the entire window. How can I get [thispatcher] to work in Presentation Mode? I sent the [window size] msg to [thispatcher] and it alwways changes the *patching* window, not presentation. Did a search on this and couldn't find the answer...

Hi,
Just figuring out the [thispatcher] object and playing a little.  My goal is to be able to add buttons to a interface to re-size the entire window.  How can I get [thispatcher] to work in Presentation Mode?  I sent the [window size] msg to [thispatcher] and it alwways changes the *patching* window, not presentation.  Did a search on this and couldn't find the answer...

thispatcher-in-presentation-mode

It sets the size for both patching and presentation modes for me. Try this patch out which is basically part of the [thispatcher] help file, it should work. If it doesn't please let us know exactly what it is and isn't doing.

Thanks... this is still weird for me. Your patch works fine. There must be something operational I'm missing because it behaves as expected for awhile, then I move some windows around and it doesn't. Does using the New View command (1 view for patcher, 1 view for Presentation) impact this? That seems to be one thing that causes it to change. How about if 1 or more of them is in Edit mode at the time?

When things confuse me, this is how it's acting: In my patch, if the patch's Presentation Mode window is open and main patcher window is *not*, window msgs to [thispatcher] resize the presentation window fine, as expected. If *only* the patcher window is open, it resizes that. If both are open (by making a New View) it still resizes the *patcher* window. So it seems like [thispatcher] wants to affect the patcher window first, and if that's not open it will affect Presentation. So I think it could be functional in the end, but this isn't really how I would expect it would act. Did I miss something in the docs? Is this behavior expected under some circumstance?

Thanks... this is still weird for me.  Your patch works fine.  There must be something operational I'm missing because it behaves as expected for awhile, then I move some windows around and it doesn't.  Does using the New View command (1 view for patcher, 1 view for Presentation) impact this?  That seems to be one thing that causes it to change.  How about if 1 or more of them is in Edit mode at the time?

When things confuse me, this is how it's acting:  In my patch, if the patch's Presentation Mode window is open and main patcher window is *not*, window msgs to [thispatcher] resize the presentation window fine, as expected.  If *only* the patcher window is open, it resizes that.  If both are open (by making a New View) it still resizes the *patcher* window.  So it seems like [thispatcher] wants to affect the patcher window first, and if that's not open it will affect Presentation.  So I think it could be functional in the end, but this isn't really how I would expect it would act.  Did I miss something in the docs?  Is this behavior expected under some circumstance?


[thispatcher] in Presentation Mode...