[Pipet Devel] Thoughts on Network/Composite Inputs and Outputs

[Brad Chapman]

[...what to name connectors that get mapped to the parent locus...]

> Well, Piper should know what /type/ of information each connector 
relays, or
> what the connection represents, so how about the default name simply 
being
> the
> connector type?

Well, the name of a connector has to be unique (this is the id of 
each connector) so just the type wouldn't work properly, since if you 
had two "Constant" node types in a network, and then mapped both of 
their "VALUE" connectors to the parent locus, you would get a clash. 
    As I mentioned I have been munging together the type (ie. VALUE) 
with a sort of unique identifier (ie. Constant1) to get something 
like 'Constant1--VALUE' for a name. This works okay now, but I guess I 
just worry how easy it will be to maintain. This is also not very 
helpful to a user, since right now they only see 'Constant' as the 
name of the node, and so can't tell which Constant is Constant1 and 
which is Constant2.
    Overflow gets around all of this by just making the user pick a 
name to identify the connector which is being mapped to the parent, so 
this is another choice to make things easier. This is kind of a pain, 
but I don't know which way is better. What do people think?

Brad