Some suggestions for beat editor

Hi, Here are some ideas that I got while using beat editor. You might find them useful.

• I think it would be good if the connections in a toolchain could break at some points and bypass blocks instead of directly connecting inputs and outputs. Something like what is available on the beat platform. The reason is that even though it is more convenient while making a toolchain to just connect an output to an input it is very difficult to understand what is going on when you look at an experiment using that toolchain, specially when the experiments get bigger and the connections are crossing each other. Even if there was a mechanism to highlight a chosen connection in the experiment page can be really helpful. This mechanism is already there when making a toolchain but not when you look at the experiment.

• It would be good if the user can assign a colour to a channel of data while making the toolchain. As far as I tried the channel colours are chosen by the system and in many times they are visually close to each other. I sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between them.

• It would be nice that user can change the name of groups while defining the algorithms. This is not the case as far as I experienced.

• It would be nice if the separation between different parameter categories in the experiment page such as Block, Global Settings, etc were more distinct.

• It would be nice if the user can choose several connections and delete them altogether. Even if there was a button like "delete all connections" might be useful. I had painful experiences trying to remove all the connections but not the blocks. :)

I might be wrong about any of these points and the features may already be there. Please let me know if that is the case. :)