Maybe there could be a menu item that toggles between a) making pasted objects dangle from the mouse (similar to what happens when hitting ctrl-1), or b) shifting 10x10 for the same window and leaving everything as is for different windows.
(Hopefully I didn't double post this...)
-Jonathan
--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org Subject: Re: [PD] Pd-list Digest, Vol 46, Issue 108 To: "Ingo Scherzinger" ingo@miamiwave.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 10:16 PM Yeah, I thought some people might do that. As it is now, newbies get
really annoyed and frustrated, as well as some experienced users. I
figure it is easy enough for someone in your position to hit shift- left-arrow, then shift-up-arrow and it'll be back to the original
position. That's much easier than recovering from pasting a copy
right on top of itself.Maybe someone can come up with an even better idea that solves both
issues..hc
On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Ingo Scherzinger wrote:
I agree with pasting to the same window the cursor
position would be
the best solution. But please leave it the way it is for
different
windows. I always copy objects that have been changed to almost
identical
windows and they are right in the spot where they belong. Changing
this
behaviour would be very annoying if you're doing things like this.
Ingo
well, the current behavior is helpful when pasting
into a different
window if it has similar dimensions, but if we are
copying a piece of a
patch which was way down in a window into a new window, then
the pasted code
ends up in the same place too and one has to go look for it.
This also happens
because the window doesn't focus in the pasted
section, but keeps the 0,0
coordinates. I think in general, (or when pasting to the same
window) it would
be nice to paste into the last clicked coordinate.
In any case I am so used to it by now that I can
survive in these
conditions.
J
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Miller Puckette mpuckett@imusic1.ucsd.eduwrote:
I think if pasting to the same window this
would be reasonable - but
I've
always had in mind, instead, to paste the
objects to a new place
determined
by current cursor position, which would be far
better. Just haven't
been
able to think it through and do it.
M On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:22PM -0500,
Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:
Hey all,
I was thinking that it would be nice if
copy-paste had the same
response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the
position over by 10
pixels in x and y, then pasting. I can't see
a good reason why paste
doesn't do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get
very frustrated by the
current behavior. Regular users get used
to the Duplicate command,
but I don't know of any other programs
where you can't just copy-
paste and you need a special function.
.hc
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