[PD-dev] displaying when an arg has been overridden

[Jamie Bullock]

I second that - I think it would be a very useful feature. However, I think the colour should be quite subtle so as to not look too much like an error (red) or another alert message. Perhaps it should also be an option, so that people can turn 'colour mode' off if they really do just want black and white (or perhaps slightly better performance).

Jamie

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 12:11:49 -0400
Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

> 
> I just ran into a bug which I quite common in Pd, and thought of a  
> simple, graphical way to show status which would make such bugs  
> trivial to spot.  Basically, I had a [+ 17] which I had mistakenly  
> input data on the right inlet.  I then was debugging the logic since  
> I thought the [+ 17] was adding 17.
> 
> So I was thinking that whenever an argument is overridden by data on  
> an inlet, the argument should change color to clearly display that  
> that argument is no longer in effect.
> 
> Right now Pd is very black-and-white, and I support not adding  
> extraneous colors.  But I think that we should be using color to show  
> things, and this is a simple example where I think it makes sense.
> 
> .hc
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