 
     color: => @get('color') || "steelblue"
 
+    connects: (id) => @get('left') == id || @get('right') == id
+
   # This is the main chart class
   #
   View: class extends D3ChartView

        text(line)
        y += 10

    # this method is called every time we're updating the chart
    #
    refresh: =>

        attr("stroke", "gray").
        attr("fill", (datum, i) -> colors(i)).
        attr("width", @x @module.Node.width).
        attr("height", (d) => @y d.value()).
        on("mouseover", @node_mouseover).
        on("mouseout", @node_mouseout)

      # And here we have the label. We use a +svg:text+ element that will then
      # hold a +tspan+ element for each line
