Martin, That's a great idea. You would get visual feedback for all relevant cases. And I now realize that the protruding inlets/outlets don't resolve the ambiguity of the case you mentioned, whereas colored connections do.
-Jonathan
--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca wrote:
From: Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca Subject: Re: [PD] Horizontal Connections (Was: Re: style guide idea: [send To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at, "Matt Barber" brbrofsvl@gmail.com Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 4:35 PM Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Matt, I like the usage agreement idea, as long as
there's visual feedback. For example, if the inlets and outlets in pd-ext protruded one or two pixels, you'd be able to see the connection crossing over to the "wrong" outlet.
Maybe better if outlets with connections were coloured differently.
Martin