Yeah, I don't mean porting that.  I think a lot of those hacks are not so useful in regards to good patching style.  More I wanted to start the discussion about what kind of tools in the GUI could make patching go much quicker, without making things harder to use.

I think this stuff really comes into play when building GUIs.  I think have a snap-to-grid function would go a long way to speed up this process. Another idea is to have magnetic edges on GUI objects, so that they want to line up.  A great example is OmniGraffle, which is kind of a patcher interface, since it does diagramming, UML, etc.  Its really quick and easy to put together nicely laid out diagrams without a lot of hassle.

.hc

On Jun 3, 2006, at 6:19 PM, vade wrote:

The only issue with the Max ToolBox is that it has this funny tendancy to cause Max to act rather odd. Its not a built in function in Max, but rather a set of javascript addons. So make sure its a part of PD proper, or an extension that doesnt suck ass. Ive had to remove my max toolbox as it just caused issues. Ive repeatedly asked C74 for quick key command like PD has. oh well...  :)


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On Jun 3, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

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.



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