[PD] UI developer volunteering to help

Dan Wilcox danomatika at gmail.com
Mon May 5 18:53:53 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:49 +0100, Jamie Bullock wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 12:21 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> > I've never worked with that, however I'm always irritated, when
> > patching environments have their cord connections flow left to right
> > instead of top to bottom. IMO that's such a waste of space in
> > languages, that are written horizontally. If you look at the "Midi to
> > Poly" object here: http://synthmaker.co.uk/images/components%20L.png
> > you'll see that most of it is just an empty grey rectangle, whose
> > width is just there to make room for the object name. If the
> > in/outlets were top and bottom as in Pd and Max, the box could be much
> > smaller without losing any information.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> However, I'm quite warming to chord-less patching a la circle:
> 
> http://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/
> 
> IMO, this looks like a really nice and well-thought-through UI. Although
> I am definitely not suggesting Pd should go down that route -- Pd and
> Circle are two very different beasts!
> 
> Jamie
> 


Hmmm why is it called "Free Audio Workshop" when "Circle will be
available for €149.00 / $199.00" ... ?

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Dan Wilcox
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