I agree with this totally. All professional media production environments are loaded with hot keys: Logic, ProTools, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Photoshop, etc. While Pd already has a selection of great commands for object instantiation, there is a definite performance gap between the level of operational fluidity that the "pro" apps accommodate.
<br><br>~Kyle<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chuckk Hubbard</b> <<a href="mailto:badmuthahubbard@gmail.com">badmuthahubbard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I agree. If you think about it, a mouse and a keyboard are two<br>versions of the same thing; a mouse works in two dimensions and has a<br>vocabulary of two or three words, whereas a keyboard works in 0<br>dimensions with a vocabulary of 100+ words. Any keyboard-based
<br>interface will have a higher learning curve, but, I think, possibility<br>for more fluency. The mouse is easy to learn but limiting for<br>advanced users.<br><br>It seems like it wouldn't be hard to create either an external or even
<br>an abstraction that could do this, though. Provided you are working<br>with a saved version of your patch, the patch file could be read for<br>object positions, and mouse messages sent to draw connections. The<br>hardest part would be determining exact positioning of inlets and
<br>outlets according to the number of them and the size of the box, both<br>of which are usually variable...<br><br>-Chuckk<br><br>On 10/29/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <<a href="mailto:hans@eds.org">hans@eds.org</a>> wrote:
<br>><br>> How about this for a keyboard shortcut for making connections:<br>><br>> - select an object<br>> - type outlet number of that object<br>> - type inlet number for object to be connected to<br>> - select object to be connected to
<br>> - Pd makes the connection<br>><br>> This could be enhanced by allowing keyboard selection of objects,<br>> something like alt-tabbing between selected objects.<br>><br>> .hc<br>><br>><br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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