On Jan 12, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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From: Max abonnements@revolwear.com To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: Richie Cyngler glitchpop@gmail.com; pd list pd-list@iem.at; Ben Baker-Smith bbakersmith@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:09 AM Subject: Re: [PD] no pd?? WTF ????
And that's not the end of the vicious cycle. Students who saved their money to buy a Max license are often unwilling to accept that their work could have been done as easy in Pd, and sometimes even better and/or easier.
If you think of free software as an ethical issue like I do and are talking about free programs that have a proprietary alternative, there is still an important division between those programs that are free and superior to their proprietary counterparts on practical grounds, and those that don't have the same feature set as their proprietary counterparts (but are still quite good).
In terms of ease of patching, Pd is clearly in the latter camp-- Max has infinite undo, a "Tidy Up" that actually _does_ something useful, and a set of externals that allows to make multiple connections at once and lots of other shortcuts (maybe these are part of the core now, I'm not sure). Plus tooltips, anchors to resize guis/boxes/messages, and probably lots of other things that make patching easier.
I use Pd and free software (almost) exclusively, but we should be clear about which features are available and which are not.
Excellent point.
Speaking of, is your tooltips patch fully functional in Pd-extended 0.43? I believe it is included, right? It would be great to ship with that working.
.hc
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