WISH Panel Wire Display/Store Persistent Data Sniper

David

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would it be possible to change the wire display option for the inputs of a panel i.e. use hidden display.

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Also, could there be a "snip" action say where data is streamed form an output of a component or file, the user can snip the input (may be by right clicking and selectign from options) and allow the current data to be stored in the current panel is persistent data. This would be much more useful then streaming the data, selecting all data, copying data, and then creating a new panel component on the canvas and pasting the data to the panel. I guess its similar to the persistent data recorder component

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Permalink Reply by Steve Lewis on February 10, 2012 at 3:05pm

Just to add, the snip action would be on the panel component.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 10, 2012 at 3:40pm

I think you can use hidden display for the inputs of a text panel...

And is what you're suggesting different from "Internalize Data"? Are you asking for that ability to be added to the panel component?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Lewis on February 10, 2012 at 4:06pm

Damn, you are right, you have to right click over the panel region, i was right clicking over the node. My Bad.

Yes i think internalize might be the same. How do I do that?

Basically I may want to temporarily stream from a text file but once I have fianlized on that stream input I want to disconnect that text fiel and instead keep that data in the text panel so that when I close the file and reopen it the data is still there and I dont need to look for the text fiel again to stream the data.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 11, 2012 at 6:24am

If you connect your file reader to a string parameter, and then hook that up to a panel, you should be able to right-click the parameter and choose "internalize data"; this will automatically disconnect the parameter from the file reader but will cause its data at that moment to persist.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Lewis on February 17, 2012 at 2:48pm

Big Problem tho.

When you internalize it does not keep the tree structure.

I had strings arranged in a particualr data tree structure, after internalizing all data is automatically flattened and I lose the tree data structure which is no good.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 18, 2012 at 9:18am

Ahhh, good point. Copy-pasting into a panel won't preserve the structure either.

In my opinion the internalize feature should probably ALWAYS preserve tree structure; it is easy enough to flatten after the fact if that's the desired effect.

In order to work around this, I scripted a little "Snip" component, which will preserve the path data when you right click the input and choose "internalize." I am only just learning to script with data trees, so I expect there are much smarter/more robust ways of doing it, but it seems to work so far in my limited tests. Hope it is of some use to you!

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