[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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