I just remembered a feature* one could have in the future (it relates to various threads and interesting discussions we had here):<div><br></div><div>- When rolling the mouse over a outlet of an abstraction it could tell what that was. (useful for those crazy objects with n-th outs)</div>
<div><br></div><div>How could he tell what that outlet carries? This could be a sort of metadata comment (or other better/clever idea) added to the subpatch/abstraction that would be parsed and read by the GUI in order to simplify your work. Like "Metadata/Outlets: sound(mono); data(0.0-1.0); toogle(0-1); on-off(bang);"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then in our main patch:</div><div>__________________</div><div>|my_giant_abstraction|</div><div>| <b>_ </b>_ _ _ ___________|</div><div><br></div><div>When rolling through outlet "1" it would say "Sound(mono)"., and so forth</div>
<div><br></div><div>Conversely, one could do the same for inputs/inlets.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a though after many hours of pd,</div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Pedro<br><div>* maybe this has been though/brought up here, its worth the try.</div>
<div>p.s.: anyway I'll take note of this, maybe I could try a simple version of it sometime...</div><div><br>-- <br>Pedro Lopes (ongoing MSc)<br>contact: <a href="mailto:pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt" target="_blank">pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt</a><br>
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