jMax Phoenix introduce a new user interface component, the patcher browser.

It shows a tree including all the loaded patchers, following the inclusion between patchers. With time, this browser will hopefully evolve toward a full project browser.

In the ide and tabbed ide user interface styles, the browser is shown in a fixed area at the top left of the main window. In other styles can be opened from the Tool menu.

Double click on a tree node open it and show it content. CTRL-Double click on a tree node open the selected object editor; if the object is a patcher, the patcher window is opened, if it is a normal object its parent patcher window is opened and the object selected, if the selected object support an editor (like explode), the corresponding editor is opened.

On the bottom of the browser the Show pop up menu allows to choose different filtering options:

• Patchers: Only the subpatchers are shown as node children.
• Editable: Only the editable objects are shown, i.e. patchers, templates, and objects with an associated editor, like explodes.
• All: all the objects are shown (very verbose, for big patches)
• Details: Like all, and for each object show the object properties (experimental feature).