On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, pix wrote:
[osc~ 100] -> [dac~] select, the connection, hit the intersect button, and it becomes [osc~ 100] -> [nop~] -> [dac~] then the nop object could be edited into something useful, potentially with no interruption to audio: [osc~ 100] -> [*~ 1] -> [dac~] then a number box could be patched into the second inlet of the *~ object, and you have added volume control without having to stop the patch. is this too wacky?
When I was VJing (an imposture...), showing off the effects of GridFlow and making new ones as I was going, I happened to wish I had the possibility of not interrupting the flow of grids, because the way it is right now, it's not visually smooth... But I still had to disconnect and reconnect, which takes 1 second unless I make a mistake. Still, æsthetically speaking, that may be significant, especially in fast-looking effects.
So I vote yes for this feature, and I request its complement as well:
Selecting a component and hitting a special deletion key (for example Ctrl+Del ?) would merge the wire(s) of its inlet 0 with the wire(s) of its outlet 0, and delete the object itself, in one pass.
So those two features allow to expand and shrink a chain of components without interrupting anything.
________________________________________________________________ Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju