[PD] idea: keyboard shortcut for making connections

Kyle Klipowicz kyleklip at gmail.com
Sat Nov 4 23:03:25 CET 2006


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.

~Kyle

On 11/4/06, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree.  If you think about it, a mouse and a keyboard are two
> versions of the same thing; a mouse works in two dimensions and has a
> vocabulary of two or three words, whereas a keyboard works in 0
> dimensions with a vocabulary of 100+ words.  Any keyboard-based
> interface will have a higher learning curve, but, I think, possibility
> for more fluency.  The mouse is easy to learn but limiting for
> advanced users.
>
> It seems like it wouldn't be hard to create either an external or even
> an abstraction that could do this, though.  Provided you are working
> with a saved version of your patch, the patch file could be read for
> object positions, and mouse messages sent to draw connections.  The
> hardest part would be determining exact positioning of inlets and
> outlets according to the number of them and the size of the box, both
> of which are usually variable...
>
> -Chuckk
>
> On 10/29/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> >
> > How about this for a keyboard shortcut for making connections:
> >
> > - select an object
> > - type outlet number of that object
> > - type inlet number for object to be connected to
> > - select object to be connected to
> > - Pd makes the connection
> >
> > This could be enhanced by allowing keyboard selection of objects,
> > something like alt-tabbing between selected objects.
> >
> > .hc
> >
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