[PD] jMax Phoenix

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Mon, 10/4/10, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: [PD] jMax Phoenix
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>, pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Monday, October 4, 2010, 8:40 PM
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> 
> > I thought it was in 0.43-- at least I'm using Pd
> version 0.42.5-extended and there isn't the autopatching
> feature.
> 
> This is one of the rare features of Pd-vanilla 42 that is
> disabled in Pd-extended 42.
> 
> > I initially liked what I saw of the autopatching
> features in Desiredata, but I haven't tried them enough to
> judge.
> 
> It's not very related : you'd press a separate keyboard
> shortcut to explicitly get an autopatched objects. That's
> not incompatible with users' habits. Miller's implementation
> goes against the existing habits of users.

Right, I remember that.  I just didn't use it enough to find out 
exactly how convenient navigating around different objects/inlet 
/outlets and making connections with the keyboard was.

I do remember that in Desiredata you have to actually create the 
object with <ctrl-Enter> before you are able to autoconnect 
another one, which is an unnecessary step.

-Jonathan

> 
> > I also seem to remember the possibility of increasing
> the mouse-over radius around each inlet so you don't have to
> be so precise to make a connection.
> 
> That applied to everything you could click on (and drag
> from or to) in a canvas.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________________________________
> | Mathieu Bouchard ------------------------------ Villeray,
> Montréal, QC