--- On Thu, 2/17/11, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] FLOSS book Lists chapter To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk, pd-list@iem.at Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 9:25 PM On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
if { $xlets_involved > 2 } { menu_doc_open
attachment_dir horiz-connections.pd }
Error: Success
Now what's the problem with horizontal wires ?
I mean those that aren't overlapping any inlets or outlets, not the ones in your patch.
Here's a revised version where the wires aren't overlapping.
How do you know they aren't overlapping?
- Use pd-ext and notice the difference between the 1px gray box and the
1px black connections. 2) Actually move the object to _reveal_ that the connection don't overlap. 3) Always assume that the patch creator followed the rule of "don't overlap xlets".
1 is implementation specific and ridiculously subtle for an environment where "the diagram is the code", 2 is wasting people's time by making them fuss around in the patch in order to be sure they understand what it does, and 3 is easy to screw up:
__[inlet]_ [f] [f]
(On a narrow object like [f] it's very easy to make a connection to the wrong inlet. Well, not as easy on pd-l2ork...)
So I guess qualify it to "no horizontal connections unless there's only 1 inlet and 1 outlet involved".
-Jonathan
(We already agreed against overlapping wires)
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