[PD] Fwd: right angle connections

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

On 06/14/2013 12:07 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
> >The real problem is: having the feature forces every pd flavor to
> >understand them at the file format level, even if not rendering it.
>
> If the "connect" method took A_GIMME you could just follow its
> initial four floats with a list of coordinates.
>
> -Jonathan
Indeed. This is how pd-l2ork maintains backwards compatibility for a 
number of features. That said, storing coordinates in the existing file 
format and/or drawing the cord are not the problem. The problem is what 
happens when you translate the object the cord is connected to? 
Uncovering logic whether all the coordinates need to be translated (as 
opposed to only last one) is something that even Max fails to do 
gracefully despite the fact it has been capable of this for over 10 
years, perhaps in part because there is no perfect/graceful way to deal 
with this that does not require some fairly evolved logic.

Another challenge is cord selection. What needs to be checked is if the 
existing cord selection logic is indeed robust to handle new segmented 
cords. Although my memory is not what it used to be, as far as I 
remember, the hitbox detection is fairly primitive when it comes to 
cords and in its current form is not capable of gracefully handling 
this. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Perhaps more pressing matter IMO is ability to multiselect cords so that 
you can erase many of them at once without having to resort to hack-ish 
ways of cutting and pasting objects.

-- 
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Head, ICAT IMPACT Studio
Virginia Tech
Department of Music
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