[PD-dev] align objects by keyboard shortcut WAS: Finished iemguts' [canvasselect] and a max-toolbox-like proof of concept

[Georg Werner]

Hi Luke,
i saw your patches now and thought of how to combine our efforts instead 
of doing the same work twice. i can imagine a modular system. like a 
core with the keyboard shortcuts and different modules which are 
triggered by them (each module gets the list of canvasselect as input). 
a next step would be to form a consistent set of shortcuts and to build 
the core (i think we could use my attempt as a starting point).
this could end in an abstraction [meta] which includes all the 
functionality like aligning and connecting objects.
cheers
georg


Luke Iannini schrieb:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Georg Werner<georg at fricklr.de> wrote:
>> this is a little workaround for not having associative arrays ... ;) sorting
>> 2 lists by the first one. (in this case e.g. the x-values and ids of
>> objects)
>> g.
> I think IOhannes means that the object is missing ; )
> 
> I also made some alignment patches, ha, but forgot to announce them -
> I'm keeping stuff in the SVN under abstractions/meta-abs/experimental.
>  Looks like yours is cooler anyway!
> 
> By the way, check out [sort] in zexy - it outputs both a sorted list
> as well as indices of the original positions in the input list, so you
> can get "sort-one-list-by-another" functionality out of it (it's what
> i'm using in my alignment patches) - and it's sure to be quicker. (oh,
> I suppose you could already be using it in 2list-sort but I can't know
> : ) )
> 
> Very glad an ecosystem is blooming!
> 
> Best
> Luke
> 
>> IOhannes m zmoelnig schrieb:
>>> Georg Werner wrote:
>>>> hi,
>>>>
>>>> i did an abstraction for aligning objects. thanks to canvasobjectposition
>>>> this was not too hard. if you put it in your search path you can create an
>>>> [align] object which provides keyboard shortcuts for left-align and
>>>> top-align. and i did another option for distribution in equal distances both
>>>> x and y.
>>> "2list-sort"?
>>>
>>> fgamsdr
>>> IOhannes
>