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.
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