Hey all,
I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same
response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 pixels
in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste doesn't
do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the
current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command,
but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy-paste
and you need a special function.
.hc
You can't steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can
hear it, you can have it. - Dizzy Gillespie
I think if pasting to the same window this would be reasonable - but I've always had in mind, instead, to paste the objects to a new place determined by current cursor position, which would be far better. Just haven't been able to think it through and do it.
M On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:22PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey all,
I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same
response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 pixels
in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste doesn't
do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the
current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command,
but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy-paste
and you need a special function..hc
You can't steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can
hear it, you can have it. - Dizzy Gillespie
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well, the current behavior is helpful when pasting into a different window if it has similar dimensions, but if we are copying a piece of a patch which was way down in a window into a new window, then the pasted code ends up in the same place too and one has to go look for it. This also happens because the window doesn't focus in the pasted section, but keeps the 0,0 coordinates. I think in general, (or when pasting to the same window) it would be nice to paste into the last clicked coordinate.
In any case I am so used to it by now that I can survive in these conditions.
J
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Miller Puckette mpuckett@imusic1.ucsd.eduwrote:
I think if pasting to the same window this would be reasonable - but I've always had in mind, instead, to paste the objects to a new place determined by current cursor position, which would be far better. Just haven't been able to think it through and do it.
M On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:22PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey all,
I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 pixels in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste doesn't do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command, but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy-paste and you need a special function.
.hc
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Yeah, that sounds like a good combo, something like this:
- same window, copy -> paste, shift by 10x10 pixels,
- same window, copy -> mouse-click -> paste, use mouse coords
- copy -> different window -> paste, use current mouse coordinates and
leave
The shift 10x10 part is trivial to do, just move the 10x10 shift code
from canvas_duplicate to canvas_dopaste. That just leaves me with the
question: is there any harm in having it always shift 10x10 until the
last option is sorted out?
.hc
On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
I think if pasting to the same window this would be reasonable - but
I've always had in mind, instead, to paste the objects to a new place
determined by current cursor position, which would be far better. Just haven't
been able to think it through and do it.M On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:53:22PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:Hey all,
I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 pixels in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste
doesn't do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command, but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy- paste and you need a special function..hc
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shifting objects when copy/paste in the same window, would be pretty neat. when pasting in an other window it should shift imo.
eni
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Hey all,
I was thinking that it would be nice if copy-paste had the same
response and duplicate, i.e. shifting the position over by 10 pixels
in x and y, then pasting. I can't see a good reason why paste doesn't
do that. Anyone know of any? Newbies get very frustrated by the
current behavior. Regular users get used to the Duplicate command,
but I don't know of any other programs where you can't just copy-paste
and you need a special function..hc
You can't steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can
hear it, you can have it. - Dizzy Gillespie
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