Making nodes and links less proeminent, aka CTRL + H

Related: in Cables.gl latest update they have added links that fade out in the middle to make long links less prominent.

It’s in the same ballpark as some of the solutions we are already discussing,

Overall I think it’s an improvement in cables.gl context. But ultimately I would prefer full styling control and this could be one style option.

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there’s always the chance to use [S] and [R]nodes (I, personally, use them a lot)…
or is there a reason why it is not possible?

@parabola s/r nodes introduce a framedalay, just like pads. they are written to in one frame and read out the next frame. in many cases thats not desirable.

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Bumping this so it doesn’t get closed due to staleness.

But the local ones do not. (Source)

How about using antennas to denote that you are broadcasting and receiving values?

The inspiration comes from Variable Receiver and Variable Broadcaster nodes present in Origami, a UI prototyping tool made for designers. Here it is in action.

Few notes:

  • Like pads can be mass renamed from Properties panel, the panel should also include option to mass rename these broadcast/receiver nodes as well
  • Like pads, these will have patch level and region level scoping
  • The context menu for receiver nodes should include an option “Jump to broadcast node”
  • A receiver node of the same name should not be allowed to link to its broadcast. This will eliminate the question “How will these behave in a loop?” and the answer would be that each iteration would get a fresh pair of broadcast node and receiver nodes.
  • This will also make Send (Local) and Receive (Local) nodes redundant which is great, as their use-case was limited anyway
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