Lock Object

ak's icon

circular menu -> Object -> Lock Object gives nice green highlight. What is it there for? I cannot find any reference.
I'm eaten up with curiosity.

Jan M's icon

Hi Andrej,

what is does is simply setting the selected object into the "locked" state so if it is a ui object you can use it as if the patcher was locked (i.e. you can change the value of a number object by clicking and dragging) while the rest of the patcher remains unlocked. With the exception of bpatcher you can achieve the same by cmd+click (ctrl+click for windows) so to speak "on the fly".

cheers jan

ak's icon

Thanks for clarification. It would be obvious (but otoh distracting) if cmd/ctrl + clicking an object also gave this green highlight. For me cmd+click works also for bpatcher.
I see this feature could be useful, but why there is the limitation to lock only one object at a time?