You'll want to check out Desire Data, (it's alpha though). Lots of great ideas in it. .hc
On Sep 9, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote: > Hello, > > I've made the switch from Max/MSP to PD 1-1.5 years ago right before I > switched my OS to linux and I'm loving almost every moment of it. But > there is only one thing I got used to while I was using Max and after > all those months of PD programming, I still miss that feature that was > made possible with a js addition called "max toolbox". > > It basically allows you to use your keyboard to connect objects to > each > other. For example, if you select n number of objects alligned from > top > to bottom and press "c", all of their left inlets and outlets will be > connected in the same "top to bottom" fashion. There are also shortcut > keys for connecting an outlet to multiple inlets of another object > (these > all work from top to bottom) and vice versa and bunch of other > features. > I only miss the "c" shortcut and these "outlet to multiple ins and > inverse of it" features actually. Extensive mousing makes me feel > uncomfortable and sometimes causes pain so those shortcuts were making > my life a lot easier. > > I have some programming experience but they were always personal > projects and I don't think I can understand PD internals well(C code). > To achieve such functionality in PD what would my options be? I think > all the gui is handled in pd.tk file with Tcl/Tk(I may be badly > mistaken > though) so would this be a matter of adding some stuff to tickle > scripts? Or is it impossible to do without patching the C code? If > I can > find a feasible way to do it, I might work on it as the practicality > that is gonna bring would be very huge(for me anyways). > > Any clues on the possibility of this addition? > Here is the youtube video of the max toolbox thingy: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcqF9hDNoJk > > I'm pretty sure that most of you know about that but if you've never > heard of it, then there is the link. > > Thanks, > Batuhan > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. - General Smedley Butler _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
