[PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I agree avoiding horizontal connections is good.  the 5% of the time  
when segmented patch cord are useful is when you need to take a patch  
cord from the bottom to the top of a patch to make a loop.

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On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> How can you say that segmented patch cords are bad 95% of the time  
> when they are not even available in Pd 100% of the time?
>
> Just to take Miller's "Techniques" as an example, if there were  
> segmented patch cords then all of his horizontal connections could  
> be made unambiguous by having about 5px of vertical cord segment  
> directly above the inlet.
>
> Also, I've never seen you complain about any of the ASCII art on the  
> this list, which often (surely more than 5% of the time) uses "-"  
> and "|" at 90-degree angles and "+" to make segmented patch cords.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>;
> To: Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com>;
> Cc: <pd-list at iem.at>;
> Subject: Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter
> Sent: Sat, Feb 19, 2011 6:48:10 PM
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>
>> This made me think of a help to revealing (2). If an interface
>> were to have hover-over tooltips, as has been discussed at times
>> for outlets/inlets, then a cable could reveal its creation
>> order on hover.
>>
>> It wouldn't obviate triggers, but would make a nice debugging
>> feature.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> +1
>
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>
> I don't think the connection order should be exposed.  I really  
> think that the GUI should not encourage bad programming practice.   
> Its also this same reason why I think that 95% of the time,  
> segmented patch cords are bad.
>
> But yes, tooltips showing what messages an inlet expects would be  
> great to have.  Check out the l2ork distro for the new version of  
> J.Sarlo's magic glass cord inspector.
>
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