[PD] number2

[Miller Puckette]

My original thought was to make it easier to debug patches, that controls
should have a different appearance when they "send" or "receive" messages
from elsewhere.  If you see a number changing that's connected to
an input on the screen, it's easy to assume that there are actually messages
passing down the connection.  Worse yet, you can copy and past a number
into another part of a patch and then be confused when it changes unexpectedly
because it's still got a hidden "receive".  So all in all I prefer suppressing
the inlet  -- REALLY suppressing it, like "number" -- over providing it, and
the same with the outlet if the box "sends".

I think it's a bad idea simply not to _draw_ the inlet and outlet, but
to implement them anyway, as the IEMGUIs do.  If there were some other way
to distinguish the boxes graphically, that would be better, but I can't
think what it would be.

cheers
Miller

On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 06:16:54PM +0900, hard off wrote:
> but what's the purpose of the disappearing inlet/outlet?  
> 
> maybe there's a good reason for it, but if you can still connect it
> seems to make more sense to have an inlet/outlet visible...and i know
> i'm not the only one who thinks that way.
> 
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