[PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

> I didn't mean to push people's buttons by making the faux pas of a 
> comparison with Max, but in this respect I do find that at least Max has 
> a deterministic way of showing what messages are going to send in what 
> order.  I consider this an improvement, but you certainly don't have to.
> It's also not necessarily the *best* way this problem could be solved,
> because as others have suggested,  too much dependence on the
> locations of objects creates its own issues.

If you start with the idea that there should be this feature, then you 
should have some kind of support from the editor that prevents the 
downside of it, which is to change behaviour accidentally by trying to 
reformat the appearance of a patch (moving objects around). If 
right-to-left order of wires is so important, prevent simple object motion 
from going past another object connected to from the same outlet, and 
introduce some different way of permuting those wires.

> Another solution might be to explicitly number the patch cords, for example.

This wouldn't prevent the reformatting problems, unless there is obvious 
highlighting of any permutation of destinations.

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