It's stupid -- you press it to find out what timing errors have occurred recently, in an unreadable format. The whole thing needs to be rethought :)
thanks M On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:26:33PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > > On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > >[Kind of picky...] > > > >In the console, there's a checkbox with the clickable text "DSP." I > >know > >acronyms are normally capitalized, but in this case if the text read > >"dsp", the tk label/checkbox would accurately reflect the message one > >sends to pd to turn audio on and off (with the checkbox fulfilling > >the 0/1 argument). > > > >I think someone complained recently that DSP would be less clear to a > >beginner than "compute audio." I think that's true, so if the > >beginner > >has to read a help file to figure out what it means, they might as > >well > >learn the message "dsp 0" and "dsp 1" at the same time (and be > >reminded of > >the _exact_ selector everytime they look at the console). > > "compute audio" is easier to understand, but it then doesn't match the > 'pd dsp' message or the Media menu items. I think overall, its easier > if people learn that DSP means computing audio as well as other > things, and the term DSP is used consistently throughout. I don't have > a strong feeling on upper vs lower case on DSP tho. > > >In a similar vein: what about "audiostatus" instead of "DIO"? > > > >-Jonathan > > I never use the DIO button and don't really know what it is, so I left > it as is ;-) As far as I can gather its an error light for if there > are communications troubles with the audio interface. > > .hc > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It's a tactic. > It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and > expect we're going to win that war. We're not going to win the war on > terrorism. - retired U.S. Army general, William Odom > > > > _______________________________________________ > [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
