[PD] notes/questions from a beginner

[Stephen Lavelle]

(sorry that you're getting this twice, IOhannes, I hit reply rather than
reply to all the first time)

you can do that with a gui-plugin :-)
> however, your description is deliberatly awkward.
> e.g. there is no reason to explicitely "deselect" the object.
> you don't have to "press backspace while holding mouse down".
>
> it is enough to "select" the object (drag the lasso over it), and once
> it is selected, press backspace (with mouse up or down)
>

Ah, I didn't know that there was a difference between clicking on and
drag-selecting.  Enlightening!

 > 3 - I can drag lines from outlets to inlets, but not from inlets to
> outlets.
>
> i think this is actually a good thing.
> you can also not send data from inlets to outlets.
>

I acknowledge that we have a difference of opinion here, and can't think of
a persuasive argument.  Would be a good subject for user experience testing
:P

i mean, i understand that it is more ergonomic to just hold "ctrl" and
> then click all those connections you want to delete rather than having
> to click-backspace every connection.
> you save a lot of clicks (well, keypresses), but i doubt that the
> _speedup_ would be significant.
>
It's slightly physically unpleasant - going between a touchpad and backspace
with my right hand is a little awkward.

> 5 - is there a way to type numbers directly into a number box?
> > clicking+dragging, or pumping them in via a message, doesn't feel good to
> > me.
>
> click on the number box and type the numberbox.
> this is a runmode operation (that's why you probably missed it)
>

Wow.  Thanks for this.  Possibly editmode, but also because there's no
indication that the box contents are editable by pressing keys (no caret,
&c.).  Is there a reason it's disabled in editmode?

Thanks for your responses :)

S
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