[PD] multiple undo ctrl-z

[Kyle Klipowicz]

I know that the Ableton programmers have joked about the challenges of
designing their endless undo system. I am guessing that it relies upon
keeping track of every change between state saves, since they also have a
nifty feature that will rescue unsaved changes if the system crashes for
some reason. This is stored in a temporary file location specified in the
preferences menu of the program.

So basically the multiple undo system would have to keep a running log in
some temporary file, documenting each state change in the software. Beyond
me, but I agree that this feature is much-desired!

~Kyle

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Enrique Erne wrote:
>
>  there has been many good ideas about usability features, so here come my
>> most beloved ones: multiple undo be a great improvement. would that be
>> difficult?
>>
>
> When I originally harassed Miller so that he implements undo, I thought
> he'd go for multiple undo. Instead, he went for single. Basically there's
> not much more you have to do to get multiple undo if the single undo was
> done "right", but that means "if the single undo has been implemented with a
> future multiple undo in mind". The undo-system is one of the rare parts of
> pd source-code that I haven't read, because I wanted to reimplement it from
> scratch anyway. So I can't really tell you right away whether Miller's
> system could be adapted or not.
>
> My own multiple-undo code doesn't really work well, but that's not because
> it's multiple, it's because it's implemented in the client instead, and
> there were too many things that had to be changed in the server to get that
> working, and I have other excuses as well ;)
>
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