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

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