About the latter, I'd like to hear your opinion (you all mknob users...) about the following problem (and the solution I propose):
mknob poses a particular problem: because its circular shape doesn't comply to Pd graphical paradigm (every other objects are rectangular shaped), iolets are floating in an empty space near the knob; because it's visually ugly, and I don't want to surround the knob with a rectangular box, I chose not to draw the iolets, even when the mknob is not bounded to receive/send symbols. The problem (for explicitly connected knobs) is now that it's somewhat tricky to guess where you have to draw the connection to/from, and that the wire connects to/from nowhere. This is acceptable for small knob, but when it becomes bigger it's really weird.
So the only idea I see (apart from hacking Pd sources...) is to setup 3 inlets and 3 outlets, so that you can connect from/to the one in the middle; the wire is then actually connected to the circle. I succeeded to code this behaviour, keeping to possibility to use any inlet and sending to the three outlets. It's maybe a little far-fetched, but its works. What do you think of it?
Antoine Rousseau