Well, I don't know the code guts, but it seems we should be able to consider the PD editor window and the patching engine separately.

Once we do that, it is easy to imagine various ways that the window can be replicated in multiple places. X Windows for example. (Yes, there could be UI conflicts as Jonathan mentioned)

In fact, there're Tk/TCL apps called kibitz and xkibits which do this.

I am clueless about how PD uses Tk/TCL to manage windows, so I don't know how feasible this would be.

But it seems like I see Wish running when I run PD, so it might not be that difficult.

BH

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015, Jonathan Wilkes via Pd-list < pd-list@lists.iem.at> wrote:

I believe somebody did work on a system that allowed multi-user patch

editing. Hopefully someone else on the list has a link.

The difficulty is that Pd's code assumes the input is coming from a

single user. There's no way for the input methods to differentiate input from separate users. And even if you fixed that, things like dragging array points happen by setting _global_ variables for callbacks. So if you drag on one array while I happen to be dragging on another (or doing anything else for that matter), we'll end up messing with each other's interaction with the patch.

-Jonathan

On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:59 PM, jamal crawford threen52@ml1.net

wrote:

hey list

....without restarting pd or the patch. theoretical reality or dream?

best regs ~/.jc

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