Brad, I'll get to all of your messages ASAP. Brad Chapman wrote: > > Jeff, I can get two loci to break by following the following series of actions: > > 1. Add a document. > 2. Add a converter and connect with the document. Get a good connection. > 3. Add a processor. Connect an output (arrow) of the processor with the > previously made connection. > > This causes the connection to break with the document and converter and > form with the document and processor. This would be fine, except that the > document output end still moves with the newly created link. Ah, now I get it! You're making a 3-way connection. It's something I wasn't planning on allowing in Loci, since the number of inputs and outputs permitted for each locus must be well defined. Plus the workflow at a junction of 3+ connectors becomes a bit confounded. So, only 2-way connections are allowed. A 'splitter locus' may be developed instead to allow the workflow to be split or duplicated to run along more than one path. I'll fix it. Thanks for the bug report. > I also noticed another thing when I was messing around. If you move > a dot directly onto a locus (ie. on top of the two people) you lose this > input or output. Just something that will have to be worked around > eventually so dumb people like me don't keep accidentally losing their > connecting dots. Oh yeah, I noticed that a while back. Basically, the connector can be dragged under the symbol of its own icon, and when it's dropped, there's no way to get it out. The solution I was planning on was to define a radius that clears all locus ornaments. And when an unconnected connector is dropped within that radius, the connector is automatically extended to fall beyond it. > BTW, I really like the "windowlet" idea for the dots. This way you > wouldn't have to worry about trying to write a whole bunch of info inside a > dot and ending up with dots that are as big as the loci! I guess this will > have to work by getting the info from an XML document. Hmmmm... Yep. Connector information is kept as XML along with some other stuff about the locus. Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+