I think some inlets take both, dsp and messages (throw~ for example). also, did you think about changing the look between edit and run mode? marius.
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Phil Stone wrote: > >> Martin Peach wrote: >>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >>> >>>> Color really makes things stand out, especially in a black and white >>>> patch. So my question is, what would this color fade be >>>> communicating? A >>>> fade would stand out even more than a solid color, IMHO. What is that >>>> fade communicating and is it more important that other elements, >>>> like the >>>> object box, the inlets/outlets, the text in the boxes, etc. >>>> >>> >>> I guess just a quick way to tell which end is which. For instance the >>> originating end could be redder and the terminating end could be >>> bluer (and >>> outlets would be red and inlets blue). Or colour saturation could >>> decline >>> along the cord. It may be more useful if a mouseover made the colours >>> appear, otherwise everything stays black. >>> >>> Martin >>> >> >> I don't know what made me think of this from reading your post, Martin, >> but it suddenly occurred to me that a good use for color would be red >> (or orange, or yellow... ) for "hot" inputs to objects. I'm not sure if >> it could be practically implemented without modifying the object's >> source, though. While for 99% of objects, it would be the left inlet, >> in the exceptional cases like [timer], the visual reminder would be >> particularly valuable. > > That is a nice idea, it would be good to have on the GUI Ideas wiki page: > > http://puredata.info/dev/GuiIdeas > > I've been playing with a color a bit in Pd-extended recently, I think a > little bit of color used judiciously can definitely make things more > readable. Here are two examples of where I think it helps (check the > inlets/outlets and the error box): > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > The audio inlets are colored and solid, the message inlets are > black/white box. > > .hc > >> >> Phil Stone >> pkstonemusic.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] mailing list >>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
