Yes, definitely, I am thinking of something that combines the two, like a black box with blue inside. I am going to play with that more. The problem is that it's trickier to program that, hopefully it's not too tricky.
.hc On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:48 AM, marius schebella wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- 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
