[PD] notes/questions from a beginner

[tim vets]

2011/8/23 Stephen Lavelle <analytic at gmail.com>

> (sorry that you're getting this twice, IOhannes, I hit reply rather than
> reply to all the first time)
>
> you can do that with a gui-plugin :-)
>> however, your description is deliberatly awkward.
>> e.g. there is no reason to explicitely "deselect" the object.
>> you don't have to "press backspace while holding mouse down".
>>
>> it is enough to "select" the object (drag the lasso over it), and once
>> it is selected, press backspace (with mouse up or down)
>>
>
> Ah, I didn't know that there was a difference between clicking on and
> drag-selecting.  Enlightening!
>
>   > 3 - I can drag lines from outlets to inlets, but not from inlets to
>> outlets.
>>
>> i think this is actually a good thing.
>> you can also not send data from inlets to outlets.
>>
>
> I acknowledge that we have a difference of opinion here, and can't think of
> a persuasive argument.  Would be a good subject for user experience testing
> :P
>

It may be good for didactic reasons to have the patching consistent with the
logic behind it in that way.
But from a purely practical standpoint, it could save some cursor-miles if
we could connect from outlets to inlets too.


> i mean, i understand that it is more ergonomic to just hold "ctrl" and
>> then click all those connections you want to delete rather than having
>> to click-backspace every connection.
>> you save a lot of clicks (well, keypresses), but i doubt that the
>> _speedup_ would be significant.
>>
> It's slightly physically unpleasant - going between a touchpad and
> backspace with my right hand is a little awkward.
>
>  > 5 - is there a way to type numbers directly into a number box?
>> > clicking+dragging, or pumping them in via a message, doesn't feel good
>> to
>> > me.
>>
>> click on the number box and type the numberbox.
>> this is a runmode operation (that's why you probably missed it)
>>
>
> Wow.  Thanks for this.  Possibly editmode, but also because there's no
> indication that the box contents are editable by pressing keys (no caret,
> &c.).  Is there a reason it's disabled in editmode?
>
> Thanks for your responses :)
>
> S
>
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