[PD] idea: keyboard shortcut for making connections

Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 20:27:37 CET 2006


I agree.  If you think about it, a mouse and a keyboard are two
versions of the same thing; a mouse works in two dimensions and has a
vocabulary of two or three words, whereas a keyboard works in 0
dimensions with a vocabulary of 100+ words.  Any keyboard-based
interface will have a higher learning curve, but, I think, possibility
for more fluency.  The mouse is easy to learn but limiting for
advanced users.

It seems like it wouldn't be hard to create either an external or even
an abstraction that could do this, though.  Provided you are working
with a saved version of your patch, the patch file could be read for
object positions, and mouse messages sent to draw connections.  The
hardest part would be determining exact positioning of inlets and
outlets according to the number of them and the size of the box, both
of which are usually variable...

-Chuckk

On 10/29/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> How about this for a keyboard shortcut for making connections:
>
> - select an object
> - type outlet number of that object
> - type inlet number for object to be connected to
> - select object to be connected to
> - Pd makes the connection
>
> This could be enhanced by allowing keyboard selection of objects,
> something like alt-tabbing between selected objects.
>
> .hc
>
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