On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
While the images look nice, I think that there shouldn't be too many things to make Pd 'pretty'. To me usability is more important than presentability.
Well, a good part of presentability is about usability. I'll tell you one pretty annoying thing in PD. This is from my personal list of reasons not to use PD for real work:
- PD isn't made for long constructors and long comments, as it truncates comments containing newlines (YUCK), and prevents objectboxes from containing any, _and_ doesn't allow to set the max width of a box.
I don't know whether this has been fixed recently, but I retried only a few weeks ago.
In that list I forgot to mention messageboxes, which have their own set of weird quirks wrt box size; it is quite a contrast, as it actually appears like it's trying to do something about screen width. It's just that it horribly fails at it.
It'd be nice if the feature I'm talking about would be supported by the same unified code. After all, edition of an objectbox, a messagebox, and a comment, are essentially the same, and I don't see any need to split that functionality threefold.
I may eventually devote some time to attempting to do something about it, but I don't really know my way around the PD source code, and my previous attempts at getting what I want (eg, fixing the backspace bug, back then) failed horribly, and then jMax-2.5 is still my main platform.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju