[Clam-devel] Request for votes: Thinking on 'Connect to' feature

[Natanael Olaiz]

El 06/13/2008 02:50 PM, David García Garzón escribió:
> This days i've been using the annotator for connecting massive networks. 
> Definitely, the cut and paste feature is great for that (and it will be even 
> more usefull when the positions patch is applied).
>
> But, the feature i feel hard to use is the new connect-to context menu. We are 
> substituting a hard-to-aim connecting interface with a hard-to-control 3 
> levels contextual menu. Most processing have just a single connectable port 
> so the last level is not that usefull but nagging.
>
> Several alternatives to connection come to my mind:
>
> A) Having 'Processing.port' pairs in the Connect-to submenu instead of two 
> levels of selection. This could be very populated but is faster to use.
>
> B) A mid way 'Connect to' submenu that just contains processings. If the 
> processing just has one compatible port it just connects it. If it has more 
> than one port, a selection dialog appears to select the ports. Multiple 
> selection could be available, which might be also convenient.
>
> C) A 'drag wire to processing' feature. Dragging a wire onto a processing it 
> would work as selecting such a processing in the previous option.
>
> D) A 'Connect to...' context menu option, that opens a selection dialog with 
> all the compatible Procesing.Port options. Multiple selection also useful 
> here. The benefits of this one is that it is very easy to connect one port to 
> a lot of ports in different processings.
>
> They all are easy to implement as most of the code is already there on the 
> current connect-to menu implementation. If Natanael is busy with other tasks 
> i could implement one or two of them.
>
> Any strong feeling in favor of any of them? I specially like C and D.
>
>
>   

I vote for D or B. A is faster, but it could be really popullated. About 
C, I don't like so much the dragging of cables... but anyways, that 
option is not exclusive of the others.

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