Re: drawsymbol, drawnumber editable in run mode

that is a good idea, but what about to disable the complete gui interaction
for a scalar when necessary? maybe too complex to define individual
interaction details, or this conflicts with the cases you mentioned? If
yes, then could make sense to disable text input, and add an extra case to
disable x/y/etc. graphic editing.

Am Sa., 14. März 2026 um 22:13 Uhr schrieb Roman Haefeli <[email protected]
>:

> Hey all
>
> Recent versions of Pd allow you to edit scalars of [drawsymbol] and
> [drawnumber]. It turns out to be quite a headache for patches that use
> clickable scalars with [drawsynmbol]/[drawnumber]. Often when clicking,
> the text/number gets the click, stealing it from the intended click
> action. I use double clicks to remove notes in a sequencer, but if the
> number is double-clicked, the text comes gray and thus prevents the
> intended delete action. In another case I use '+' as a label for a
> button that adds segments. Now you cannot quickly add segments because
> the the text becomes hi-lighted and receives the clicks.
>
> Illustrations:
> https://netpd.org/~roman/tmp/gop-pains/drawnumber-stealing-doublclick.webm
> https://netpd.org/~roman/tmp/gop-pains/drawsymbol-stealing-doublclick.webm
>
>
> Before opening issues on Github, I'd like to check what the wider view
> on this is. I see how editing text could be useful, however I very much
> would welcome a flag to disable it. Could that be a way to deal with
> this?
>
> Thanks,
> Roman
>
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