Hiya,

I'm trying to make a GUI of a piano keyboard using canvases but am having issues making sure that the black keys always appear on top of the white keys - there seems to be no rhyme or reason to how this behaviour is translated into saving/loading (sub)patches or abstractions.

I know that the most recent canvas to be moved/created/pasted will be on top, but this isn't always saved when closing/opening. Is there any neat little trick (or hack!) to define the layer order of objects in Pd?

Thanks for reading!

Y

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/keyboard.zip

never did anything like that but maybe it can be done through manually editing the .pd?

hey, maybe something like this? it's midi input only, for visualization.

http://www.dafe.lukifer.net/pdpatches/crazymachineredux/piano.pd

and yeah, i wrote a perl script that copied and arranged and linked all the keys for me.