Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter

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

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.

.hc

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