[PD] segmented patchcords (was Re: PD & MAX)

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Dec 6 03:31:41 CET 2007


On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Phil Stone wrote:

> Martin Peach wrote:
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> Color really makes things stand out, especially in a black and white
>>> patch.  So my question is, what would this color fade be   
>>> communicating?  A
>>> fade would stand out even more than a solid color,  IMHO.  What  
>>> is that
>>> fade communicating and is it more important that  other elements,  
>>> like the
>>> object box, the inlets/outlets, the text in  the boxes, etc.
>>>
>>
>> I guess just a quick way to tell which end is which. For instance the
>> originating end could be redder and the terminating end could be  
>> bluer (and
>> outlets would be red and inlets blue). Or colour saturation could  
>> decline
>> along the cord. It may be more useful if a mouseover made the colours
>> appear, otherwise everything stays black.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
> I don't know what made me think of this from reading your post,  
> Martin,
> but it suddenly occurred to me that a good use for color would be red
> (or orange, or yellow... ) for "hot" inputs to objects.  I'm not  
> sure if
> it could be practically implemented without modifying the object's
> source, though.  While for 99% of objects, it would be the left inlet,
> in the exceptional cases like [timer], the visual reminder would be
> particularly valuable.

That is a nice idea, it would be good to have on the GUI Ideas wiki  
page:

http://puredata.info/dev/GuiIdeas

I've been playing with a color a bit in Pd-extended recently, I think  
a little bit of color used judiciously can definitely make things  
more readable.  Here are two examples of where I think it helps  
(check the inlets/outlets and the error box):

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The audio inlets are colored and solid, the message inlets are black/ 
white box.

.hc

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