plugdata-team
Feature request: A way to select short patch cords
Short patch cords cannot be selected.
It's easy to get short patch cables by selecting an object and doing ctrl-1, to create a new object with an auto-connection. I.e., steps to reproduce:
- Put any object with an outlet into a patch.
- Select it.
- Ctrl-1 to put an object under it.
- Now try to select only the patch cable... good luck.
If you try to mouse over the cable to select it, then it will highlight either the outlet above, or the inlet below, but there is no mouse position that allows the cable to be selected.
I can't find any way to handle this situation except to move the downstream object. This has the drawback that it may be impossible to restore it to its original position -- you can get it close, but maybe not exactly where it was before.
Note that this is a problem in Max as well. Their solution is a View menu option to hide "foreground" (object boxes) while keeping "background" (cables) visible. It's... gosh, is that ever clunky.
Maybe a modifier key to disable inlet/outlet mouse-over?
