[PD-dev] align objects by keyboard shortcut WAS: Finished iemguts' [canvasselect] and a max-toolbox-like proof of concept

[Georg Werner]

hi,

i did an abstraction for aligning objects. thanks to 
canvasobjectposition this was not too hard. if you put it in your search 
path you can create an [align] object which provides keyboard shortcuts 
for left-align and top-align. and i did another option for distribution 
in equal distances both x and y.
e.g. press "|" and x for left-align
there is also an undo (hit "ESC") function since such actions are not 
undoable with ctrl-z.
@luke: i hope there are some inspirations for your autoconnection patch 
inside (it was very inspiring for me)

cheers
georg

IOhannes m zmoelnig schrieb:
> Luke Iannini wrote:
>> Yo all,
>>
>> IOhannes, do you know if it's possible to get and set the coordinates
>> of arbitrary objects simply by index, much like [canvasposition] can
>> do now but including externals etc. where you can't place a
>> [canvasposition] object?  This would enable the final piece of
>> maxtoolbox layout stuff, which was Pd's Tidy... function times 10000,
>> and would let me do stuff like "connect the 4 horizontally-aligned
>> selected objects above to the 4 selected objects below" or simply
>> "connect these all top to bottom" with a single keycommand.
> 
> do you mean like [canvasobjectposition]?
> 
> fgamsdr
> IOhannes
> 
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