pix wrote:
On Tue, 6 May 2003 20:57:09 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu Bouchard matju@sympatico.ca wrote:
However the big problem with the current [inlet] is that if you have several of them inside a patcher or abstraction, then you cannot position them in a way that the first inlet is to the right of the second inlet, because then both inlets swap roles, which leads to messages coming into and out of the wrong objects.
...and you don't think readability would suffer if this was possible? after all, the visual order of the [inlet] objects inside the patch corresponds to the ordering of the connection points of the object when it appears in another patch.
if it were possible to have out-of-order inlets, then for readability they should probably be reserved for special cases where it doesn't make sense to the the processing in the area of the patch where the inlet object will lie. in which case, you could achieve the same thing easily by just draping a long patch cable across your patch, or using a send/receive pair, to get the data to where the processing will happen.
i dont think it would negatively effect readability since if you have an out of order inlet it would have a number specifying which inlet it is:
[inlet 2] [inlet 1]