On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:34:48PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Chris McCormick hat gesagt: // Chris McCormick wrote:
I'm really digging the direction this is going. If I could just chip my 2c into the fray: I have to agree with Frank that being able to select a tower of object boxes and then click a key combination to connect them by patch cords would be useful, as would a keystroke to auto-space things horizontally or vertically. I also agree with Tim that Blender's same-key select/deselect toggle feels very natural. I would vote for ctrl-A both selecting all and deselecting all.
So instead of doing auto-placements and connections as default, user-initiated operations should be preferred, i.e. a better "Tidy up" and a "Connect all selected objects" as proposed.
Totally agree, and I also advocate using keystrokes/menu options to initiate these operations. It should always be possible to use Pd to manually lay things out just like you can now.
Chris.