Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
I just saw this video, which might have been posted here before, it shows a bunch of layout shortcuts for Max/MSP. I think that there is a lot that could be done to make patching much quicker and easier.
http://www.studioimaginaire.com/nat/maxtoolbox/box2.mov
I had one thought, which is making a snap-to-grid function when editing. Maybe graphical editors have this, I think it would work well for Pd. Ideally, it would be resizable and togglable via a preference, or even better, via Pd messages.
One thing that I think would help a lot is making it so you could click and release an outlet, then click an inlet to make the connection, instead of having to drag. Any other ideas?
.hc
I would really appreciate the possibility to create an abstraction from a subpatch.
I often start writing subpatches that later turn out to be better suited as abstractions. Then I have to
- open the subpatch
- ctrl+A, ctrl+C
- ctrl+N
- ctrl+V
- ctrl+S
- create a new object in my patch (from the newly-saved abstraction)
- move all connections to the new object
Instead of this I would rather right-click on the subpatch, select "save as abstraction" and pick a place and a name for the abstraction. It could default to the name of the subpatch and the folder where the parent patch is located (so that the abstraction is found).
Besides: snap-to-grid or auto-align functions would indeed be very nice.
Best Urs