[PD] Horizontal Connections (Was: Re: style guide idea: [send

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Matt,
     I like the usage agreement idea, as long as there's visual feedback.  For example, if the inlets and outlets in pd-ext protruded one or two pixels, you'd be able to see the connection crossing over to the "wrong" outlet.

-Jonathan

--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Matt Barber <brbrofsvl at gmail.com>
> Subject: [PD]  Horizontal Connections (Was: Re: style guide idea: [send
> To: pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 5:52 AM
> > Here's my proposal: horizontal connections should
> only be used when the upper object has only one outlet, and
> the lower object has only one inlet.  Otherwise there will
> be always be ambiguity.
> >
> > With your example of all outlets pointing to the same
> inlet, there is still ambiguity as to whether or not all the
> outlets are actually connected.  That's fine if your
> patching style is to connect them first, and only line them
> up after.  But if someone is debugs a patch they made that
> includes your abstraction, they would have to click and move
> objects to be certain all the objects are actually
> connected.
> 
> 
> There is one way to be a little less conservative, but it
> requires a
> usage agreement:  if a horizontal connection travels from
> left to
> right, it must come from the right-most outlet of the upper
> object and
> must connect to the left-most inlet of the lower object. 
> Reverse if
> the connection travels from right to left.  The problem is
> there's no
> good way to tell if a patch adheres to the agreement.
> 
> Matt
> 
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