with the level of virtuosity you also want to demand new levels of requirements. it is not about displaying a visualization of the programming flow or readability of code, it is only about efficiency and user interaction. for other situations than performance or user interface, this feature is not necessary, I have to admit. marius.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > A programming environment should encourage people to program in a way > that not only works, but also is clearly legible to people who have > never seen that program before. This makes it much easier to reuse and > maintain code, and that leads to much less duplicated effort. That > means everyone can benefit from the faster progress. > > .hc > > On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:07 AM, marius schebella wrote: > >> I don't understand people complaining about additional features. you >> don't have to use it, if you don't want. but for other people it makes >> sense to layout their interface independently from their code. >> design is so important for a graphical user interface! >> I heard this so often "I can't share my patch, because only I know, >> how to use it". patches without a user interface for the run-mode are >> not sharable. >> I am not talking about patches with only an on/off button... >> pd is very limited in that regards and I really would wish pd would >> make more improvement into that direction. >> marius. >> >> Kevin McCoy wrote: >>>> The Pd graph-on-parent makes more sense IMHO because it uses >>>> existing Pd >>>> mechanisms for encapsulation and encourages patchers to modularize >>>> their >>>> programs. >>>> >>> 100% agreed, that is why I thought "umm... what's so special about this >>> presentation mode?" when I saw that page. To me that should be >>> planned into >>> the program. If your patches are messy for performance, code >>> cleaner, use >>> subpatches, etc, no excuses for that as far as I see. Sends and >>> receives >>> for gui objects have been there since I started.. I guess I wasn't >>> really >>> excited about any of that stuff :) but then again maybe I >>> misunderstand.. >>> km >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PD-list@iem.at mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic > > > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list