[PD] 0.37 must 'Cut' cables?

[Miller Puckette]

Well, there are just so many more urgent things I'm struggling with, and the
more graphics bells and whistles there are lying around the more of my time
goes into trying to maintain them.  Otherwise I have nothing against the
idea (except aesthetically, and it's not my intention to impose my aesthetics
on others!)

On the original subject, I've dropped the "X" cursor (no longer meaningful)
and tried to make "delete" and "backspace" work more rationally... thanks to
all for the suggestions.

cheers
Miller

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:13:13AM +0200, pix wrote:
> if segmented patchcords are such a sin, why hasn't told the  integrated
> circuit industry?
> 
> i'd agree ben's comment is a little off-the-cuff. the real answer is most
> certainly that it's simply more effort to impliment.
> 
> and i would suggest, to make your patches look nicer in the meantime, that
> you could try using send/receives if your patches look ugly with the
> present system. and i'd stress that this is more of a workaround than a
> design prescription.
> 
> pix.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:30:18 -0400 (EDT)
> Mathieu Bouchard <matju at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 ben at ekran.org wrote:
> > 
> > > But I suppose the lesson is patches will never be hard to follow
> > > (either way) if they are well constructed! PD patches that are well
> > > constructed look good, segmented patch cords make bad patches look
> > > good...
> > 
> > You'd have a problem with my patches maybe? My work is essentially based
> > on recursion, so in almost every patch I have a wire that goes on top on
> > an object box, and doesn't have the possibility not to. That's not
> > beautiful. (Oh yeah, I could use "send" and "receive", but it makes the
> > diagram heavier.)
> > 
> > If you agree that having cords run over objects is ugly, could you tell
> > me what I'm supposed to do to beautify patches that use recursion?
> > 
> > Also, I don't recall any other arguments against segmented patch cords
> > than things along the lines of "if your patches didn't suck you wouldn't
> > care for that feature". So I'm not sure what I am supposed to tell
> > beginners about it without sounding bad. Are there any other arguments
> > against?
> > 
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