[PD] shortcuts for patching

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yeah, I don't mean porting that.  I think a lot of those hacks are  
not so useful in regards to good patching style.  More I wanted to  
start the discussion about what kind of tools in the GUI could make  
patching go much quicker, without making things harder to use.

I think this stuff really comes into play when building GUIs.  I  
think have a snap-to-grid function would go a long way to speed up  
this process. Another idea is to have magnetic edges on GUI objects,  
so that they want to line up.  A great example is OmniGraffle, which  
is kind of a patcher interface, since it does diagramming, UML, etc.   
Its really quick and easy to put together nicely laid out diagrams  
without a lot of hassle.

.hc

On Jun 3, 2006, at 6:19 PM, vade wrote:

> The only issue with the Max ToolBox is that it has this funny  
> tendancy to cause Max to act rather odd. Its not a built in  
> function in Max, but rather a set of javascript addons. So make  
> sure its a part of PD proper, or an extension that doesnt suck ass.  
> Ive had to remove my max toolbox as it just caused issues. Ive  
> repeatedly asked C74 for quick key command like PD has. oh well...  :)
>
>
> v a d e //
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> www.vade.info
> abstrakt.vade.info
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> On Jun 3, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I just saw this video, which might have been posted here before,  
>> it shows a bunch of layout shortcuts for Max/MSP.  I think that  
>> there is a lot that could be done to make patching much quicker  
>> and easier.
>


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