[PD-dev] coloured patch cords

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 4:40 PM, Martin Peach wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> A real diff -uw is much more useful since you just apply it with  
>> patch,  no manual editing necessary.
>>
> I'm not experienced with automated patching, I suppose there would be  
> three diff files, one for each source file (g_canvas.c,  g_editor.c  
> and g_graph.c)? And what happens if someone else changes the source  
> files in the interim?

Its quite easy if you use sources that are checked out from CVS.   
Here's how you would do it:  first, check out the sources from CVS;  
then make the changes in the source and compile it to make sure the  
changes work; then to make the patch, run this command:

cvs diff -uw g_canvas.c g_editor.c g_graph.c > /path/to/my_patch.patch

then /path/to/my_patch.patch is the file.  If you make a patch using -u  
format, then the program "patch" is actually quite good at handling  
changes to the source file.  It will only choke if the exact same lines  
are changed.

.hc

>> Also, this feature was around in 0.36-devel, but no one ever ported  
>> it  forward.  I think it would be a nice preference to have.  The  
>> default  color could be black, but you could set audio coords to be a  
>> different  color if you wanted.  Also, it would be good to make the  
>> lines  anti-aliased too.  On Mac OS X, the audio-rate lines are  
>> already  anti-aliased.
>
>
> Currently it looks as though the audio rate lines are of width 2,  
> maybe that's what makes them anti-aliased. Maybe all lines could be  
> width 2 and the audio lines striped as in Max.
> --or selected lines could go to width+2 instead of changing colour,  
> also as in Max.
> Ideally each line would have a colour field in its struct so the  
> colour doesn't have to be recalculated, but that is a pd-wide  
> adjustment. Also the method I used for determining the colour seems to  
> give mostly dark brown and green lines, maybe a random colour would be  
> better.
>
> Martin
>

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