This is the readme for "popup" a popup menu for PD. popup is Copyright Ben Bogart 2003 If you have any questions/comments you can reach the author at ben@ekran.org. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License popup is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. popup is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with popup; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA USAGE: Put the binary in your extra folder. Put the helpfile in your 5.reference folder. Arguments: [pixel width] [pixel height] [background colour] [name] [opt1] [opt2] [...] Methods: float Select index value name [name] Popup's name bgcolour [colour] Background Colour (white, green, #5500ff) options [opt1] [...] List of the popup options append [opt1] [...] Add the arg list to the bottom of the current options BUGS: - Do not use a loadbang to set a patch-default value. Will cause a segfault. The left outlet will send a "bang" message when we're ready to set values, see example patch on how to use this to set a default value. Unfortunatly this bang message is actually set on un-minimization and un-shading as well as on load. Have Fun.