[PD] Horizontal Connections (Was: Re: style guide idea: [send
Martin Peach
martin.peach at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 23 23:55:22 CET 2009
Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Martin Peach wrote:
>
>>> I like the usage agreement idea, as long as there's visual
>>> feedback. For example, if the inlets and outlets in pd-ext protruded
>>> one or two pixels, you'd be able to see the connection crossing over
>>> to the "wrong" outlet.
>> Maybe better if outlets with connections were coloured differently.
>
> Why not just colour the wire itself!
>
> Even if you connect the other outlets in various horizontal ways, you'll
> still be able to see the one wire crossing over a bunch of outlets... if
> it's only one wire.
>
> If you need to see several wires... they could be coloured using random
> colours.
>
Exactly. I already proposed a patch to do that a couple of years ago but
it didn't get picked up.
Martin
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