<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>How can you say that segmented patch cords are bad 95% of the time when they are not even available in Pd 100% of the time?<br /><br />Just to take Miller&#39;s "Techniques" as an example, if there were segmented patch cords then all of his horizontal connections could be made unambiguous by having about 5px of vertical cord segment directly above the inlet.<br /><br />Also, I&#39;ve never seen you complain about any of the ASCII art on the this list, which often (surely more than 5% of the time) uses "-" and "|" at 90-degree angles and "+" to make segmented patch cords.<br /><br />-Jonathan</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><br><div><div>On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;">This made me think of a help to revealing (2). If an interface<br> were to have hover-over tooltips, as has been discussed at times<br> for outlets/inlets, then a cable could reveal its creation<br> order on hover.<br> <br> It wouldn&#39;t obviate triggers, but would make a nice debugging<br> feature.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>+1</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px
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 segmented patch cords are bad.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But yes, tooltips showing what messages an inlet expects would be great
 to have. &nbsp;Check out the l2ork distro for the new version of J.Sarlo&#39;s magic glass cord inspector.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px 0px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"
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