<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">it might also be useful to have a very subtle background grid drawn on<br>the canvas at certain intervals to help patch organization. Quartz
<br>Composer has this, as does Max 5 (not saying you HAVE to have it, but<br>it might be a nice addition.<br></blockquote></div><br><div>I look at this as the equivalent of properly indented code; a feature I'd really appreciate is the equivalent of auto-indenting since I obsessively line up my Pd patches.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Secondly, maybe consider making message boxes, object boxes and subpatch boxes each a different color? I'd consider this the equivalent of syntax highlighting, and though I'm sure choice of default colors will be contentious, I think it would be a boon for busy patches (especially the subpatch/objectbox differentiation; I am always searching for subpatches).
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>And finally, it pains me that much of this work we're discussing has already been done by Mathieu and Chun : (! I have a dream, where DD and PD and PD-E are one.
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Luke</div>