[Q][Connectors] Locking ends?

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon Jul 14 20:55:33 UTC 2003


On Monday 14 July 2003 01:53 pm, Brian Brown wrote:
> Ned Konz wrote:
> >On Monday 14 July 2003 01:10 pm, Brian Brown wrote:
> >>Ned Konz wrote:
> >>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >>>>From/To, Source/Target, Start/Finish?
> >>>>I suppose the problem is because those names give the idea of a
> >>>>directed graph, which is not always the case.
> >>>
> >>>Yes, that's been my problem.
> >>
> >>Howabout Near/Far?
> >
> >Near or far with respect to what?
>
> With respect to end of the connector that is being being
> connected/disconnected... If I am dropping one end of a connector
> to on a Morph of some sort, the end I'm dropping would be Near and
> the other would be Far.  Programmatically, would I not usually be
> dealing with a Connector in relation to some object that I want to
> connect to? That object would be the reference point for Near or
> Far. (It seems easier to think about than to describe !)
>
> Anyway, I may be missing some use cases here, but hopefully you
> understand what I'm getting at. Feel free to disabuse me of any
> incorrect notions ;)

Ah.

Well, we have to deal with the possibility that both ends might be 
connected to the same Morph.

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