On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 11:59 +0100, Jeff Rose wrote: > Have you guys ever seen this video: > > http://artengine.ca/desiredata/gallery/connection.mpeg > > It's worth thinking about what can be done to make patching as natural > as possible.
some more ideas can be found in the max toolbox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcqF9hDNoJk > I was thinking a couple other ideas too: > > - Grid mode where an adjustable grid is in the background and objects > snap to the grid. > > - alignment guides, where the system helps you line up with other > objects by having slight gravity towards lines that correspond with the > edges of other nodes. (Like they do in Omnigraffle or Keynote if you've > seen either of those.) > > - object completion would be great too, especially with namespaces it > could be really smooth to have an automatic drop down menu that pops up > below the text input as you type. > > - argument docs as well, where after you have typed in an object name it > would pop up a box that tells you what arguments are expected. Hovering > over an object should pop this up again, so it's easy to connect things > later on without having to check the help to see which inlets correspond > to what. i really like all these ideas, someone would just need to sit down and implement them ... :) cheers, tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 96771783 http://tim.klingt.org Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs
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