PD ONLINE DOCUMENTATION CHAPTER 2: EDITING AND FILE HANDLING

This chapter describes Pd's editing and file handling capabilities.

EDITING

There are four classes of "text items" in Pd: objects, messages, numbers, and
comments.  The "starter" series (from the Help menu) describes what they are
and do.  You can make new ones using the "Put" menu. 
The "Put" menu puts them at (50,50) so you have to drag them where you want
them afterward.

You will often find it more convenient to select a box and "duplicate" it
(in the Edit menu) than to use the "Put" menu.  If you select and duplicate
several items, any connections between them will be duplicated as well.

To change a text item, you can select it and retype the text.  If there's more
than a small amount of text (in a comment, for example) you might want to 
select the text and choose "text editor" from the Edit menu, which opens a
text editing window with a copy of the text in it.  Hitting "send" in that
window is exactly equivalent to retyping the text into Pd; you can send
it to more than one box in sequence if you want.


This chapter was last updated for release 0.23.
