I've got some neat ideas.

enumerate your ideas here! Not that the development team hangs out here, but someone might know someone, yknow?

I know Hans definately uses this forum. Could feature requests be added as a new section to the forum....?

i've had a few recently

I'm wanting to make a development environment around pd. I now usually have a few shells open alongside my pd projects, I'm often opening up the text of the .pd patches and regexing them. It'd be nice of I could do pd through eclipse or something, see changes in realtime, without having to save and reload the patches. What ideas have you, arif?

@sunji said:

I'm wanting to make a development environment around pd. I now usually have a few shells open alongside my pd projects, I'm often opening up the text of the .pd patches and regexing them. It'd be nice of I could do pd through eclipse or something, see changes in realtime, without having to save and reload the patches. What ideas have you, arif?

...and compile projects into standalone binaries.

Yeah, we need a way to make standalone programs.

agree, we need a way to make standalones (currently under osx one app is around 280mb... too much)

Here's my 2pence for future features:

a browser/debugger floating window: where all objects used are listed. then able to search, like searching for 'send' would reveal all the send objects in a list. Or searching for '$0-my-variable-name' reveals all the instances of that variable (be they in sends OR receives), clicking on it, would take you to where it is used and highlight the object.

colorize objects: i.e. all time related objects (metro, timer, delay, pipe e.t.c.) automatically come in a shade of brown, all float/integer a shade of green, math related objects; blue, sub-patches and abstractions; yellow e.t.c.

Snap to grid option: so patches generally look a little neater. Then the grid can be shown when in edit mode, and disappear when in play mode, for easy determination of mode (like in Max)

forgotten to ~: often I might forget to add ~ to my newly created object, it's only when I attempt (and fail) to cable it up, that I realise my error, have to go back, click, add tilde, click out of box, then re-cable. A simple "Convert to audio rate object?... Yes/no" pop up, upon 'yes', convert to [*~] and automatically cable it up, would save muchos time.

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There were more, but damn it I can't remember them.