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

[Martin Peach]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Martin Peach wrote:
> 
>>>      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.
>> Maybe better if outlets with connections were coloured differently.
> 
> Why not just colour the wire itself!
> 
> Even if you connect the other outlets in various horizontal ways, you'll 
> still be able to see the one wire crossing over a bunch of outlets... if 
> it's only one wire.
> 
> If you need to see several wires... they could be coloured using random 
> colours.
> 

Exactly. I already proposed a patch to do that a couple of years ago but 
it didn't get picked up.

Martin