[PD-dev] Finished iemguts' [canvasselect] and a max-toolbox-like proof of concept

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

Luke Iannini wrote:
> Yo all,
> My usual caveat applies: that I'm as nearly unconscious as I always am
> when I'm releasing public works :)
> 
> I had a flight today which gave me a chance to finish up
> [canvasselect] (by merging in some code from zexy's tabdump in my
> usual naive fashion to make it output index-lists rather than just
> post() the currently selected objects (thus, IO, you should probably
> double check my work :) )), and then put it to work starting to create
> some patching-assist functionality similar to max-toolbox.
> 
> I'm pretty excited for what can come out of this!

wow sounds great! i will try it out asap.

i kind of abandoned work on [canvasselect] after i realized that it did 
not seem to work as i liked (e.g. you cannot select something in a 
closed patch). that's why there were post()s inside rather than useful 
output...


> IOhannes, do you know if it's possible to get and set the coordinates
> of arbitrary objects simply by index, much like [canvasposition] can
> do now but including externals etc. where you can't place a
> [canvasposition] object?  

yes, i know this and it is on my todo list  (it's not hard to do, i just 
did not find the time yet),
i'm planning a separate class of objects like [canvas...] that operate 
on _other_ objects rather than self.
http://lad.linuxaudio.org/events/2009_cdm/Saturday/18_Zmoelnig/index.html

> 
> Back soon with more...

really glad that you like it,

mf.asdr
IOhannes