vade wrote:
Personally I find that use of segmented patch coords can *increase*
readability in patches that are well laid out. I have a much easier
time following segmented patch coords that are laid out with care than
a similarly grouped /laid out patch sans segmentation.
while i don't know the real intention behind segmented patch chords, but i have a strong feeling that they are supposed to increase readability.
however, in practice i find that generally they reduce readability. this is most likely a problem with the users and not with the feature per se.
Of course segmentation can be confusing, where many patch coords
originating from multiple locations and GOING to multiple locations
may be overlayed on the same row/column pixel (so it looks as one
patch coord), and this is definitely makes reading a complex patch
harder,
i guess about 95% of patches with segmented patch-chords that i have seen do it like this. this is why i don't want to encourage users to use it.
however, as said before, if there was a flag where i could turn off all the carefully laid-out segmentation (per patch, per pd-instance,...), i could be happy still :-)
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