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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, carmen wrote:

>> Personally, I find tooltips far more distracting that just a tiny bit of color on the screen.
> under your scheme, if the patch is even remotely alive, much of it is going to turn red right after opening
> what about displaying the init value in black, and the current value in red or green, depending on whether its rising or falling
> eg _=___=___
>  | osc~ 440|
>  |      557|
>  |     (hz)|
>  -=---------

Screen space is too precious. You need to print each in a different colour 
channel of the same area. Then you use 3-D glasses in a non-3-D way to 
read whichever value you want at the moment.

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