[L2Ork-dev] feature request: subpatch encapsulation

[Gilberto Agostinho]

Hi Ico, hi all,

Thanks for your reply. I understand that it is much easier to be 
throwing ideas around (like I do) than to implement them, and I can see 
why this particular feature would be more time consuming than a simple 
bug correction.

As for the bounty system, I don't have any objections about it at all, 
but I've never felt much comfortable with it either (other projects 
which I contribute use bounty systems). The problem for me is the amount 
of a bounty: if you are paying someone to do a work, the payment has to 
be worth doing it. If something takes several hours (or days) to 
implement, it would be ridiculous to offer few money for it. But on the 
other hand, it's a single user who is backing up this feature request, 
and so what I found is that unless an user _really_ needs a feature then 
usually he or she does not proposes bounties at all. And these few 
bounties that I came across for this type of project were relatively 
high (at least for me as a student). So in the end I'd much rather 
donate something that I can spare without being concerned if that's too 
few than to offer an embarrassing bounty for this or that feature.

As for Kickstarter, that could work out really well. There are a lot of 
Pure Data users around the world, and 99% of them agree that pd vanilla 
and extended are missing important things, particularly when it comes to 
the GUI (exactly what l2Ork is addressing the best). For the average 
user (myself included), the GUI makes a really important part of the 
whole experience and workflow, and no matter how many times you tell 
them that you can do this or that in Pd as well as in Max MSP, they 
_feel_ that Max can do more, is better, etc. But I believe that for a 
Kickstarter campaign to work out, it would be quite important to be able 
to offer Pd-l2Ork for Windows and Mac as well in order to attract more 
users (and more financial backing).

These are just ideas from the top of my head and I hope you'll 
understand my opinions.

Take care,
Gilberto

On 30/01/15 18:36, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> Gilberto,
>
> I think this is a great suggestion. It is also one that will take some 
> time and effort. For this reason, I am thinking about opening a bounty 
> system and soliciting donations for features like these as they are 
> not directly related to the most pressing issues, but if there is a 
> finanical incentive that would allow us to block off time and/or hire 
> part-time help, then we could elevate things like these to the top of 
> the heap.
>
> Speaking of which, how would community feel about something like 
> bounty system if that would move us forward faster in terms of 
> development? Alternately, how about a kickstarter or an indiegogo project?
>
> Best,
>
> Ico
>
> On 1/29/2015 7:48 PM, Gilberto Agostinho wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would like to ask you if you'd consider implementing a feature 
>> similar to Max MSP's encapsulation. Basically, if you select some 
>> objects in a patch and then use the encapsulation shortcut (if memory 
>> serves me right, in Max it used to be Ctrl+Shift+E), then they will 
>> be replaced by a single subpatch. To explain better, here is a video 
>> that I edited showing the desired feature in Pd-l2Ork: 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RqOYPK9XPM
>>
>> This can be a very handy feature: usually when patching people starts 
>> with something very simple and if (or rather /when/) things start to 
>> get complicated, they have to use a lot of copy and paste to create 
>> subpatches manually, memorize where the connections where, create 
>> inlets and outlets manually, etc. This feature would become very 
>> handy in these situations.
>>
>> Would you consider this to be feasible in Pd-l2Ork?
>>
>> Thanks a lot and take care,
>> Gilberto
>>
>>
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