i'm sure this must have happened to everyone a couple of times:
you cut a section of a patch, and paste it into another patch or subpatch. the pasted contents overlay existing parts of the patch, and you go to move them with your mouse while they are still highlighted.
however, sometimes your mouse just doesn't hit a part of the highlighted pasted objects, and the highlight comes off, and you're left with a big tangled mess of objects and patch chords.
other than just 'being super careful', is there any way to avoid or fix this problem without moving each individual object by hand???
Hum, I'm on a mac, and in cases like this, I just hit "Command-Z" to undo the paste. And then re-paste them back so that they are selected again. (But I also try to use the cursor keys to move things around, as Matt said).
Mike
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:52 PM, hard off hard.off@gmail.com wrote:
i'm sure this must have happened to everyone a couple of times:
you cut a section of a patch, and paste it into another patch or subpatch. the pasted contents overlay existing parts of the patch, and you go to move them with your mouse while they are still highlighted.
however, sometimes your mouse just doesn't hit a part of the highlighted pasted objects, and the highlight comes off, and you're left with a big tangled mess of objects and patch chords.
other than just 'being super careful', is there any way to avoid or fix this problem without moving each individual object by hand???
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:52:57AM +0900, hard off wrote:
other than just 'being super careful', is there any way to avoid or fix this problem without moving each individual object by hand???
I use ctrl-Z. :)
Best,
Chris.
Chris McCormick wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:52:57AM +0900, hard off wrote:
other than just 'being super careful', is there any way to avoid or fix this problem without moving each individual object by hand???
I use ctrl-Z. :)
aah yes, but the point is, you moved one extra object accidentally and so have lost the selection of everything - and the ctrl-z only undoes the last one extra object.
someone smarter than me with c and tcl/tk should really implement this.
hard off wrote:
i'm sure this must have happened to everyone a couple of times:
you cut a section of a patch, and paste it into another patch or subpatch. the pasted contents overlay existing parts of the patch, and you go to move them with your mouse while they are still highlighted.
however, sometimes your mouse just doesn't hit a part of the highlighted pasted objects, and the highlight comes off, and you're left with a big tangled mess of objects and patch chords.
other than just 'being super careful', is there any way to avoid or fix this problem without moving each individual object by hand???
implement multi-level undo in pd.tk
j/k
but seriously, why can't we multi-level undo yet?
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:02:21PM +0100, Damian Stewart wrote:
hard off wrote:
i'm sure this must have happened to everyone a couple of times:
you cut a section of a patch, and paste it into another patch or subpatch. the pasted contents overlay existing parts of the patch, and you go to move them with your mouse while they are still highlighted.
however, sometimes your mouse just doesn't hit a part of the highlighted pasted objects, and the highlight comes off, and you're left with a big tangled mess of objects and patch chords.
other than just 'being super careful', is there any way to avoid or fix this problem without moving each individual object by hand???
implement multi-level undo in pd.tk
j/k
but seriously, why can't we multi-level undo yet?
Because Miller's dolist is already long, and nobody wrote the patch for multi-level undo yet, and submitted it to the patch tracker. Oh wait, the desiredata guys wrote that UI feature (along with hundreds of others), but it was heavy with other changes and part of a slow, buggy build of Pd, and I don't think there was a huge amount of interest in submitting changes back to Miller, and he probably wouldn't have accepted them anyway.
Hooray for community! ;)
Chris.
Chris McCormick wrote:
Hooray for community! ;)
heh.
-d
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