Sockets do not accept more than one plug

[hgmeyer]

Hi,
currently sockets do not accept more than one plug. However, I would like to be able to connect several plugs to a socket (e.g. for routing MIDI messages). I found an if statement in the accepts method of the SocketItem class (line 1833) which returns False if more than one plug is connected. However, uncommenting the corresponding line does not seem to do the trick. Can you give me a hint which lines of code I have to change?

Best,
Hanno

[LeGoffLoic]

Hi,

I will take a look when I have some free time

[morganloomis]

This would be a nice feature so long as it could be enabled or disabled by an argument when creating a socket.

[LeGoffLoic]

Sorry guys, I really don't have time to look into this.
@morganloomis, feel free to submit a pull request if you can get it to work.

[glm-ypinczon]

I'll need that too, so I'll start working on it.
Did anyone already started something about it ?

[LeGoffLoic]

Can you do it with a flag to enable/disable directly exposed at attribute creation ?
Thanks ;)

[glm-ypinczon]

Actually I intend to do it with an integer (rather than a flag) that tells the maximum connections count.
I'll do it also for plugs with the same interface.

Default values will be -1 for plugs (infinite connections) and 1 for sockets (only 1 connection), so that it doesn't change the behavior for the current code.

Does it sound oK for you ?

[LeGoffLoic]

Sounds good !

[p0las]

that would be very cool! I use nodz to graph asset hierarchy. My solution is to create multiple plugs for "parent" every time a new connection is added. This makes the graphs ugly but solves the problem. I would love to be able to just connect multiple connections to a socket. Plugs can already to it so why not sockets?

[LeGoffLoic]

It was just how i designed it for a specific use case. But it should be fairly simple tu modify.

[p0las]

a quick and dirty solution is to comment out a few lines in the SlotItem.connect method.

#        if len(self.connected_slots) > 0:
#            # Already connected.
#            self.connections[0]._remove()
#            self.connected_slots = list()

without that sockets are like plugs.