Chun made an inspiring presentation at FAVE2006. A feature that stays with me was a 'object mode' where an object could be "active for patching", son whenever it passed over the path of a cord the object was inserted (the cord was patched to the object inlet and outlet)
I cant remember if it was in response to a question, or someone suggested as a solution, but in order to choose which inlet the cord connected to you just moved the object left or right more. I can't recall how the outlet assignment was handled.
Anyway, it seemed jolly good. Certainly a feature of Desire Data I have long wished could be brought to vanilla Pure Data.
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:55:58 +0900 Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx wrote:
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.
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