[PD] Simple PD GUI enhancement - like Max Toolbox

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You'll want to check out Desire Data, (it's alpha though).  Lots of  
great ideas in it.
.hc

On Sep 9, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've made the switch from Max/MSP to PD 1-1.5 years ago right before I
> switched my OS to linux and I'm loving almost every moment of it. But
> there is only one thing I got used to while I was using Max and after
> all those months of PD programming, I still miss that feature that was
> made possible with a js addition called "max toolbox".
>
> It basically allows you to use your keyboard to connect objects to  
> each
> other. For example, if you select n number of objects alligned from  
> top
> to bottom and press "c", all of their left inlets and outlets will be
> connected in the same "top to bottom" fashion. There are also shortcut
> keys for connecting an outlet to multiple inlets of another object 
> (these
> all work from top to bottom) and vice versa and bunch of other  
> features.
> I only miss the "c" shortcut and these "outlet to multiple ins and
> inverse of it" features actually. Extensive mousing makes me feel
> uncomfortable and sometimes causes pain so those shortcuts were making
> my life a lot easier.
>
> I have some programming experience but they were always personal
> projects and I don't think I can understand PD internals well(C code).
> To achieve such functionality in PD what would my options be? I think
> all the gui is handled in pd.tk file with Tcl/Tk(I may be badly  
> mistaken
> though) so would this be a matter of adding some stuff to tickle
> scripts? Or is it impossible to do without patching the C code? If  
> I can
> find a feasible way to do it, I might work on it as the practicality
> that is gonna bring would be very huge(for me anyways).
>
> Any clues on the possibility of this addition?
> Here is the youtube video of the max toolbox thingy:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcqF9hDNoJk
>
> I'm pretty sure that most of you know about that but if you've never
> heard of it, then there is the link.
>
> Thanks,
> Batuhan
>
>
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