Anton Woldhek wrote:

I was wondering why PD has a vertical data flow.

probably because gravity pulls towards "down" rather than "right" ? (just think "water" or "apple")

ps I failed to search the archives prior to this post,

why have you failed to search ? is something wrong with the search-engine ?

mfg.asd.r IOhannes

Hallo, Anton Woldhek hat gesagt: // Anton Woldhek wrote:

I was wondering why PD has a vertical data flow. Just looking at the resolution of my screen: 1024 by 768. I got more space horizontally.

Obviously the horizontal screen came from Max. Just curious if there are good reasons to choose a horitonal way of structuring.

Pd/Max objects are basically words, which are generally much wider horizontally than they are high vertically. Even with the usual 4/3 ratio of modern screens you will never fit as many objects horizontally as you can vertically, so the current layout is a better use of the available screen space.

(I don't know if this is intended, I just made this up myself. ;)

I must say, especially with graph on parent patches I more often run out of horizontal then out of vertical space.

Also words stretch vertically. If you replace an object with another one bearing a longer name, then your layout will risk getting out of proportions.

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