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

[marius schebella]

I think some inlets take both, dsp and messages (throw~ for example).
also, did you think about changing the look between edit and run mode?
marius.

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Phil Stone wrote:
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>> 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:
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> http://puredata.info/dev/GuiIdeas
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> 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.
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> .hc
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>>
>> Phil Stone
>> pkstonemusic.com
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