Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Wish
- [inlet] and [outlet] should have numeric argument.
Because...? It would break a lot of patches, I guess.
Rationale
Currently, [inlet] and [outlet] objects seem to number themselves according to their positioning in the canvas (AFAIK).
Yes.
This is a bad thing because:
- Behaviour should not depend on graphical appearance, except when
otherwise not possible to do so.
The position is saved in the patch file and thus can be deduced from reading the patch file (y-coordinate). In this regard it is not purely graphical.
For example, if several connections come out of an outlet, connections are treated in an unspecified order.
You're right, that this is a bit confusing. If several connections come out of an object, they should be considered to occur at the same time. For explicit ordering, the Max-languages use the [trigger] object.
It is considered a bug to rely on that ordering. (Is it? I don't know the puredata mindset enough for that)
Well, to rely on "unspecified order" isn't a bug, it's stupid. Pd behaves the same as jMax or Max in this, I guess (I didn't use both others very much, though). See [trigger] for how to specify order.
- Each functionality must be accessible by at least one explicitly
specified behaviour. (i.e. unspecified behaviours do not count as a valid way to use a feature)
See [trigger] again. Or maybe I missed the whole point?
ciao
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