Losing contraptions in the patcher window

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tzilt
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Joined: June 24, 2009

maybe this has already been addressed but here is something I am experiencing....

So i am working in the patcher window and I use the mouse to select the entire group of contraptions to move them lower on the screen....but I actually miss one and leave it on the top of the screen....then I cannot seem to get back up there to grab the missing contraption. It is still connected obviously, but the patcher's autoscaling prevents me from going back up there. (unless I am missing something obvious)

Would there be a way to... 'recall all contraptions' that just takes all the contraptions and plops them back in the middle of the patcher?

Spectro
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Joined: June 23, 2009

>Would there be a way to... 'recall all contraptions' that just takes all the contraptions and plops them back in the middle of the patcher?

Edit: After all the stuff i wrote below I just realized this is a post in "feature requests" . In any case...

For the time being, at least, this would have to be done manually. One way to ensure that you have selected all contraptions to move in the first place is [Command] A (OSX) or [Ctr] A (Win - I think)
With that said, the contraption view pane *should* reveal scrollbars if there is a contraption that is no longer in the visible area. Failing that, there is also a basic zoom functionality on the patcher pane: On OSX it is [Command] (mouse) scroll. On Win (i think, again) the equivalent is [Ctrl] scroll.

Ross B.
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Joined: April 11, 2009

> Would there be a way to... 'recall all contraptions' that just takes
> all the contraptions and plops them back in the middle of the patcher?

Ctrl-Z or Edit -> Undo?

I'm not really sure I understand what the problem is though. Are you saying that you can't scroll the window back to the top?

Thanks,

Ross.