[PD] Simple PD GUI enhancement - like Max Toolbox

[Kyle Klipowicz]

As far as I can tell, you can do this with internal messages to Pd. Am
I off base here?

~Kyle

On 9/10/07, Batuhan Bozkurt <batuhan at batuhanbozkurt.com> wrote:
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 9, 2007, at 10:48 PM, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote:
> >
> >> pat wrote:
> >>> Batuhan Bozkurt a écrit :
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've made the switch from Max/MSP to PD 1-1.5 years ago right before
> >>>> I switched my OS to linux and I'm loving almost every moment of it.
> >>>> But there is only one thing I got used to while I was using Max and
> >>>> after all those months of PD programming, I still miss that feature
> >>>> that was made possible with a js addition called "max toolbox".
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Batuhan
> >>>
> >>> hello, you might be interested about this:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.piksel.no/pwiki/DesireData
> >>>
> >>> in fact I believe after a discussion with a max user that the macro
> >>> feature of desiredata makes it better than max with toolbox.
> >>>
> >> Thanks! In fact I know about desiredata and I'm VERY excited about it.
> >> But it is still alpha and project seems halfway behind the first release
> >> in timeline. But when it is finished, it's gonna make things better than
> >> anything for sure!
> >>
> >> So the only feasible option for me is to wait? Or do you have any other
> >> suggestions for me? I can live much better with this simple hack I
> >> mentioned actually, but if it is so hard to implement by myself then
> >> I'll have to wait for sure.
> >
> > I believe that the Max Toolbox is a set of Max patches.  I think the
> > same thing should be possible to implement using Pd patches as well.
> > I think you could get some of those features working without too much
> > hassle.
> >
> > .hc
> >
> >
> >
> Yes, they are a set of patches but they are all implemented in max
> "javascript" objects and they exploit the dynamic patch creation
> possibilities of Max/MSP as you can create patches with scripting in
> there, realtime.
>
> Is there any facility like this in PD? Not necessarily javascript but
> some sort of "controlling patches structure from another patch" facility?
>
> If there is a way of connecting two objects together with a cable by
> patching, and without actually drawing the connection by mouse then I'm
> sure it will be fairly easy to do it. But I'm not aware of something
> giving that possibility to me. Is there any?
>
> Batuhan
>
>
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