[PD] L2Ork pd-extended release candidate 1 now available (was: Re: call for testers...)

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Tue Nov 30 17:37:55 CET 2010


That's your choice of course, but its been Ctrl-R in Pd-extended for a  
while, and now its in Pd-vanilla.

.hc

On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:

> Since ctrl r command is something that's going to be used a lot more  
> often (IMHO) then raising the root window (which personally I've not  
> used as much since this last change), I feel like it would be better  
> to have more commonly used keys closer to the center of the keyboard  
> so that one can invoke then with either one hand and thus use the  
> keyboard simultaneously while using mouse. This is why I've moved  
> raise root window to ctrl+; and put cord inspector in its place.
>
> Tip-posting courtesy of my android.
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>> Both of these are actually a feature. I actually used to
>>>>> have real-time
>>>>> scrollbar updates but that simply bogged the cpu down too
>>>>> much, so I
>>>>> opted to updating them only once an object has stopped
>>>>> moving which in
>>>>> most if not all cases makes perfect sense.
>>>>
>>>> That makes sense.  It will make cutting and pasting from a
>>>> different window size a bit more difficult (because objects
>>>> are pasted at the coords from the original patch) but unless
>>>> pasting from the bottom corner of a 1000px canvas it shouldn't make
>>>> much difference.
>>>
>>> Actually, this is an excellent point. Consequently, 3rd release
>>> candidate is now up where I've made the following adjustments:
>>>
>>> *changed paste action so that it pastes where the current mouse
>>> position
>>> is rather than duplicating original x/y positions. more so, the  
>>> newly
>>> spawned objects are grabbed (as if creating an object from a menu),
>>> allowing easy repositioning. This change will greatly help in making
>>> sure that objects are not spawned very far from the current canvas
>>> location (as per Jonathan's comment/suggestion) due to the new
>>> scrolling
>>> algorithm.
>>> *duplicate now works on other canvases as well (does not require
>>> duplicating within the same canvas) thus replacing the functionality
>>> of
>>> the old paste action which preserves x/y positions. There is no  
>>> offset
>>> if the newly pasted canvas is different than the old one.
>>> *fixed bug where scrollbars would not redraw after initial dragging
>>> of a
>>> newly created object.
>>> *enabled autopatch for iemgui objects.
>>> *Invoking disabled ctrl+r now enables both the edit mode and the  
>>> cord
>>> inspector (as per Iohannes's suggestion).
>>>
>>> As usual feedback is most appreciated.
>>>
>>> http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56
>>
>>
>> Ctrl-R raises the Pd window on Pd 0.43 and Pd-extended 0.42.  How
>> about making the cord inspector Ctrl-I?
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>
>>
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