Cycling 74 » Topic: Example: Dragging windows/panels by clicking anywhere http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:58:18 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-39693 <![CDATA[Example: Dragging windows/panels by clicking anywhere]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-39693 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 23:11:14 +0000 seejayjames So I’m getting into Second Life (much more there than I thought, check it out!) and I liked the way you can drag control panels/windows from anywhere there isn’t a control object, not just the top bar. It saved time being able to do this, as it has in other applications. So I thought I’d try something similar in Max, and cooked up the patch below.

There’s a jit.window which can be dragged from anywhere, and also a subpatch (more versatile as you can do anything with them) which does the same. Probably could find a use for these: multiple jit.windows with video previews easily movable/positions presettable, or subpatches with clusters of controls which you can drag around easily (and not even need a title bar to do it, if you want that look). Effects like saving presets of size and position are easy, but the “snapping” to other windows would take a bit of work, though is certainly doable.

It was fairly straightforward, though the “pos” command to the jit.window isn’t the same as the “rect” command to thispatcher, so that was a little strange to get working. But it works, and using it this way gets the benefits of the Second Life panels (draggable from anywhere) while going a step further (since the number boxes in SL aren’t mouse-controllable like those in Max). Hah! :)

-CJ

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139958 <![CDATA[Re: Example: Dragging windows/panels by clicking anywhere]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139958 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:52:38 +0000 Bas van der Graaff Thanks, cool idea, it actually feels more natural than i thought it would, but i think it may not always come in handy; if you’re working fast and you miss the controller, you end up moving it all the time. And what toolbar are you going to drag around all the time? I usually put i somewhere once and i don’t move it again…

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139959 <![CDATA[Re: Example: Dragging windows/panels by clicking anywhere]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139959 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:22:09 +0000 seejayjames Actually the metros for the mousestate objects will be hidden in a real implementation, so you won’t have to click and unclick them, they do it automatically when you click in the window/panel you want to move. Does that handle the “moving it all the time” problem? I had that in an earlier version, where you could hold down “m” and the panels would move with you, but it wasn’t as intuitive.

I may work on it some more and get some kind of finalized, reusable version, with “snapping” and presets of panel layouts. Just experimenting with it all… :)

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139960 <![CDATA[Re: Example: Dragging windows/panels by clicking anywhere]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139960 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:25:47 +0000 Bas van der Graaff I just meant that i really only need to move my windows around once, so it’s questionable whether being able to drag anywhere on the window saves me that much time…

Actually, at home i’m a windows user, and i use a tool called GridMove. It’s awesome and fast and allows me to snap all windows to a preset configuration, but it doesn’t get in the way at all.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139961 <![CDATA[Re: Example: Dragging windows/panels by clicking anywhere]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/example-dragging-windowspanels-by-clicking-anywhere/#post-139961 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:45:47 +0000 zoe Yeah, that’s very nice. I think it will especially useful when working with unbordered jit.windows or subpatchers with no title bar without having to switch to bordered mode just to move the window or that kind… (I admit it’s not a 24h a day situation, but for finitions on a live patch or so it would be really great!)

Regards,
Zoe

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