[PD] minor annoyance: copy and pasting objects puts the new objects UNDER the old ones

Roman Haefeli reduzent at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 17:21:17 CEST 2017


On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 16:39 +0200, Matt Davey wrote:
> Sorry, i really do love pd, and feel like lately all i am doing is
> complaining about fiddly annoyances, but this one has gotten me
> repeatedly, and i felt it might be easy to fix (?):
> 
> If you copy an object (ie: ctrl+C), or select an area and copy all
> objects inside that area, and then paste directly again (ie: ctrl+V),
> the newly created objects are actually placed UNDER the original
> object.  
> 
> So, when you try to move the newly created object, you end up moving
> your original. 
> 
> This gets particularly frustrating if you copy/paste a big bunch of
> objects at once, and then do something else before realising, and
> can't access the undo function any more. 

I do understand your frustration, but I almost never hit this problem
which is - I believe - related to my work flow. I only use Ctrl-c Ctrl-
v when copying from one canvas to another. When copying inside the same
canvas, I use Ctrl-d which duplicates the selected objects and shifts
the copied version by 10 pixels on each axis. Since the copy is already
selected, I only use the keyboard to move around the copy with Shift
and arrow keys. I moved them so far until there is no overlap anymore
and it is safe to use the mouse to move the group around without
creating a mess. I found that on Linux moving selections of objects is
quite comfortable with the keyboard, but on Macs the key repeat
interval is so slow that it makes the process tedious. 

Roman
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