On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:
it might also be useful to have a very subtle background grid drawn on the canvas at certain intervals to help patch organization. Quartz Composer has this, as does Max 5 (not saying you HAVE to have it, but it might be a nice addition.
I look at this as the equivalent of properly indented code; a
feature I'd really appreciate is the equivalent of auto-indenting
since I obsessively line up my Pd patches.Secondly, maybe consider making message boxes, object boxes and
subpatch boxes each a different color? I'd consider this the
equivalent of syntax highlighting, and though I'm sure choice of
default colors will be contentious, I think it would be a boon for
busy patches (especially the subpatch/objectbox differentiation; I
am always searching for subpatches).And finally, it pains me that much of this work we're discussing
has already been done by Mathieu and Chun : (! I have a dream,
where DD and PD and PD-E are one.
DesireData has much more substantial and interesting changes than the
colors and backgrounds. it is also, unfortunately, not at a fully
usable state yet. Since there were 50,000+ downloads of the previous
version of Pd-extended (0.38.4), I think it's worthwhile to spend a
couple days to make Pd-extended work better while we are waiting for
DesireData.
.hc
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