22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
1:02 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:53:04 +0000, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
ability to wire LADSPA plugins directly into the
network (the difference
between this and your average modular synth app is that the guis for these
plugins will be drawn on top of the plugins' boxes in the network, rather
than in their own windows).
Good, that is the Right Way(TM) IMHO.
Anyway, the point of mentioning this here is that what
I had originally
envisaged was curved wires drawn over the top of the modules, and each wire
having a control point which can be dragged around to change the curve it
follows (right-clicking would bring up a menu so that the wire can be
deleted, changed colour, etc). I was also toying with the idea of making
ports dockable so that if you drag a module next to another one so the ports
line up they will automatically be connected, making things like chaining
stereo effects much quicker.
I like the docking ports idea, and I do think that for typical jack apps
routing style connections will be easier to follow. Yes, I'd imagine that
the algorithm will be complex. I did start to plan something out to do
this myself, but all the simple algorithms I could think of failed on
common cases.
I had a quick search for papers on the subject but I mostly found stuff
specific to chip design (which is a different problem).
- Steve