Hi there,

I seem to remember fiddling with an external that let me move abstractions around, and would automatically connect outlets to inlets based on proximity?

I thought it was maybe in [iemguts] but it doesn't look like it?

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

I have a little helper abstraction and it would be nice to just move it close to the relevant inlet and have it autoconnect.

Cheers peeps!

@unclewayback Some help here I think........ https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13134/things-i-wish-i-had-known-when-i-started-pd/22

And.... maybe it is no longer valid in Pd, but you might be thinking of the -autopatch startup flag and you disabled as I did it long ago.....
David.

Thanks @whale-av - always good to be reminded of the "intelligent patching" stuff - still a bunch of shortcuts that I haven't learnt properly yet!

I found the abstraction I was thinking about: https://forum.puredata.info/topic/13046/a-movable-autoconnnecting-vu-meter-esp-for-debugging-code

It's not an external so much as clever use of dynamic patching techniques, will enjoy digging in when I have the time.

https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/3520/getting-positions-of-objects