[linux-audio-dev] Re: Modular Jack patch bay

[Joern Nettingsmeier]

Dave Robillard wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 19:19, vanDongen/Gilcher wrote:
> 
>>My preference :
>>The line doesn't need to be thick. Clicking it selects it (and shows it by 
>>changing the color, maybe making it thicker as well ), pressing delete 
>>removes it. 
> 
> 
> I think clicking on a line is just far too difficult to bother.
> 
> 
>>Handles of some sort to create segmented patch cords would be nice. As would 
>>the ability to rotate a client box over 90 degrees, so you have the 
>>connection at the top and bottom.
>>Another feature could be symbolic link objects. Sometimes you have a signal 
>>detour to some part of an app that is  somewhere else on the graph and 
>>allready heavilly connected to all kinds of other stuff. A symbolic-link to 
>>foo:input12 foo:output12 could be nice then. 
> 
> 
> Whew, now this is getting complicated. :) These things are nice in
> modular synths, but wouldn't it be overkill in a patch bay?

hmm. i don't like this symlink idea. kinda kludgy to me, but that's 
surely a matter of taste.
how about a feature to collapse an arbitrary part of the graph into 
a black box? rubber-band a couple of jack clients, press 
ctrl-something and you get a blackbox with all inputs that 
originally went into the subgraph and all outs as well, which is 
labelled by default with a simple list of the clients inside, 
regardless of their ordering.

just an idea...
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