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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Yes, definitely, I am thinking of something that combines the two,  
like a black box with blue inside.  I am going to play with that  
more.  The problem is that it's trickier to program that, hopefully  
it's not too tricky.

.hc

On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:48 AM, marius schebella wrote:

> 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:
>> 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):
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>> ---
>> The audio inlets are colored and solid, the message inlets are  
>> black/white box.
>> .hc
>>>
>>> Phil Stone
>>> pkstonemusic.com
>>>>
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