Yeah that would be nice to have a little history inspector in Pd that would label each task by name and allow you to click to it directly rather than cycling through.
~Kyle On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]>wrote: > > One thing I like about Emacs a lot is that it remembers the undo/redo > states across saves. I think that saving should not wipe out the undo > possibilities. Didn't Photoshop go back to single undo? I think they > replaced multiple undo with a sort of editable history log. I think that > would be even better than multiple undo. > > .hc > > On Jan 31, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote: > > I know that the Ableton programmers have joked about the challenges of > designing their endless undo system. I am guessing that it relies upon > keeping track of every change between state saves, since they also have a > nifty feature that will rescue unsaved changes if the system crashes for > some reason. This is stored in a temporary file location specified in the > preferences menu of the program. > > So basically the multiple undo system would have to keep a running log in > some temporary file, documenting each state change in the software. Beyond > me, but I agree that this feature is much-desired! > > ~Kyle > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Enrique Erne wrote: >> >> there has been many good ideas about usability features, so here come my >>> most beloved ones: multiple undo be a great improvement. would that be >>> difficult? >>> >> >> When I originally harassed Miller so that he implements undo, I thought >> he'd go for multiple undo. Instead, he went for single. Basically there's >> not much more you have to do to get multiple undo if the single undo was >> done "right", but that means "if the single undo has been implemented with a >> future multiple undo in mind". The undo-system is one of the rare parts of >> pd source-code that I haven't read, because I wanted to reimplement it from >> scratch anyway. So I can't really tell you right away whether Miller's >> system could be adapted or not. >> >> My own multiple-undo code doesn't really work well, but that's not because >> it's multiple, it's because it's implemented in the client instead, and >> there were too many things that had to be changed in the server to get that >> working, and I have other excuses as well ;) >> >> _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... >> | Mathieu Bouchard - tél:+1.514.383.3801, Montréal, Québec >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> > > > -- > ----- > ------------ > ---- ----- > ---- -------- - ------ > http://perhapsidid.wordpress.com > http://myspace.com/kyleklipowicz > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "[W]e have invented the technology to eliminate scarcity, but we are > deliberately throwing it away to benefit those who profit from scarcity." > -John Gilmore > > > -- ----- ------------ ---- ----- ---- -------- - ------ http://perhapsidid.wordpress.com http://myspace.com/kyleklipowicz
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