Something that's not uncommon is to double-click on an input port for a node in order to set a value.
If this Node is something that can accept images, and other types, then double-clicking does nothing at the moment.
Proposal: double-clicking a port that has no type set, would automatically set the type to Real, and show the input field.
Just a convenience feature, but I bet lots of new users don't understand that they need to set the Type—it's a rather 'developer-y' way of thinking, in order to assign some numbers.
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I personally use image and
I personally use image and text data types as often as real or integer so I would rather it not default to a specific type (Real) because I think I would be accidentally setting it to a data type I don't want to set it to which would get frustrating.
What if instead double clicking brought up a short list of maybe your top favourited data types from the long list for easy access? Then it's a feature that can fit the individual user rather than a specific style of composition. Maybe then, if you only have one type favourited, it can automatically choose that type without showing the short list?
Yeah why I understand new
Yeah why I understand new users could wonder what a generic type is, converting it automatically to real isn't automatically the best solution I guess.
Because you then have to know you can re-convert it to another one of your desired type.
More like double-clicking opens the data type list to choose from, beside the right-click, that sounds like a good idea.
Or a selected list like Chris suggests.
This is a good opportunity to
This is a good opportunity to clean up that menu a bit. It's so long, that often as I reach for Real in a diagonal path, it times out (or whatever that is).
The reason I'm setting these inputs, is so that I can just assign/type in some values. Usually Real, sometimes a String. Surely this is 95% of real world use? menuFrustration.mov
menuFrustration.mov
We've renamed this to clarify
We've renamed this to clarify our planned implementation and opened it for voting.
Chris,
Chris,
Your "favourited data types" could build on top of this with a later separate feature request once this one is implemented.