22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
2:24 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:52:05 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
I'll step into the role of a Pd guru for the
moment:) The GUI-shadows
aren't included in the official Pd on Miller S. Puckette's site, but you
can checkout the devel_0_36 branch of Pd in our "Pure Data Externals
Repository" at Sourceforge. Homepage: pure-data.sf.net, browse CVS at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pure-data/. They are not
available (or possible) as externals, you need a patched Pd.
It gives you colored patch cords, shadows behind objects (which I have
turned off, as you might have guessed by now), and also Jack-support and
some other niceties.
I'd agree that shadows behind the objects are useless. Coloured patch
cords could help me, depending on what the colouring rules are, but I
still think the biggest thing done to make it easier to use would be
(optional) chip style routing. I find the straight lines very hard to
parse.
I've just seen a screenshot of Live and it is very clean. I'm not sure I'd
find it particularly easy to use though. Maybe I'd adapt the the UI
scheme.
- Steve