Bypass, Add, Insert on right-click menu for components
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Borogove ·
Audiomulch uses a graphical patch routing system similar to SMs, but it has a few very handy shortcuts.
Request 1: The right-click menu for a component, besides the "Delete" option, should have a "Bypass" option. Bypass removes all connections to and from the component without deleting it, and does its best to replace connections that previously went through it. In other words, if you have Float -> Float Inverse -> Sin -> Out and you do a Bypass on the Float Invert, it should connect the Float to the Sin input directly and leave an unconnected Float Inverse. In Mulch there's only one type of connection, so SM's case is more complicated - as long as it works as expected for simple cases like homogenous-type 1-in-1-out and 2-in-2-out components, what it does in more complicated cases isn't a big deal. This Bypass feature is handy when you decide, e.g., your filter needs to be moved from before your waveshaper to after it, etc.
Request 2: Right-clicking on an empty space in the schematic offers a New> menu option; all available components are in a hierarchical menu under New>. This is redundant with the visual drag-n-drop of components, but it opens the door to...
Request 3: Right-clicking on a component offers Insert After> and Insert Before> menu options. Like the New>, they let you add a new instance of any component, but it tries to patch them in before or after the component you're clicking on in a reasonable way.
These are just convenience features, but Mulch users will appreciate finding them in SM. 🙂
infuzion ·
Borogove wrote: Request 2: Right-clicking on an empty space in the schematic offers a New> menu option; all available components are in a hierarchical menu under New>.
That is a neat idea; I use it in Buzz. Though in BUZZle, the machine sidebar seems to be better for my mouse-wrist.
There are a few keyboard shortcuts for primitives already. Maybe making primitive shortcuts user-configurable, & include [CTRL-Shift] etc for more shortcuts?
posh ·
infuzion wrote:
Borogove wrote: Request 2: Right-clicking on an empty space in the schematic offers a New> menu option; all available components are in a hierarchical menu under New>.
That is a neat idea; I use it in Buzz. Though in BUZZle, the machine sidebar seems to be better for my mouse-wrist.
There are a few keyboard shortcuts for primitives already. Maybe making primitive shortcuts user-configurable, & include [CTRL-Shift] etc for more shortcuts?
yesyesyes god yes. user configurable shortcuts! 😀
also the ability to resize the tooldbox without snap, and the ability to set snap-to-grid on/off would be nice. imo.
Tom7777 ·
There are a few keyboard shortcuts for primitives already. Maybe making primitive shortcuts user-configurable, & include [CTRL-Shift] etc for more shortcuts?
I asked for this ages ago and i think the devs said it would be added so im guessing its somewhere on the features to add list 😀
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