Notes node/section

I do not know anything about ff’s scripting so this may not make sense. Would it be possible to script a notes node? This would be a node that I could add to a filter, where I could just type in it, so it would remind me of what I had going on, or inform someone else of how things work. Also, would it be possible to add a notes section to existing nodes?

Would you mind posting an example?

Then an arrow would point to a marquee selected node or region of nodes.

Here is some related Lua code (it will not work in its current form as it seem to use additional libraries etc. and it need to be converted to FF sampling style)

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-- Global Variables font = Image.load("bmf02_007.png") LetterPixelsWide = 8 LetterPixelsTall = 8 InputString = [[ !"#$%&'()* ,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]] --Functions function char2font(char_input)        IndexNumber = 0    for i = 1, string.len(InputString) do       if string.sub(InputString, i,i) == char_input then          return IndexNumber       end -- end if       IndexNumber = IndexNumber + LetterPixelsWide    end -- end if    return 0 end -- char2font function blitChar(target, char, posx, posy)    target:blit(posx,posy, font,char2font(char),0,LetterPixelsWide,LetterPixelsTall,true) end -- blitChar function blitString(myTarget, possx, possy, thestring)    incX = 0    for w = 1, string.len(thestring) do    blitChar(myTarget, string.upper(string.sub(thestring, w,w)), possx + incX, possy)       incX = incX + LetterPixelsWide    end -- end for end -- blitString --main program blitString(screen, 10, 10, "Hello World") font = Image.load("bmf02_003.png") LetterPixelsWide = 8 LetterPixelsTall = 15 InputString = [[ () ,/12456:@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]] blitString(screen, 10, 100, "Hello World") screen:flip() screen.waitVblankStart(600)

(source: http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-...font.html)

First of all it seems to use some sort of Image library to load image data to a table, here we need an alternative. I'm thinking about a temporary unsafe script that takes a FF map input and store that to a text file (with the correct table formatting). The content of the text file can then be copied into the main script afterwards.

Secondly, the whole blitting concept (target:blit) is opposite to how FF works (projection vs. sampling), so this need to be changed (using two imposed grids for lookup, first is for character zones, second is for pixel zones).

Beside from that, the character lookup stuff should work.

Note that the character image/table need to contain one line of characters only. And they must be monospaced. The InputString variable should reflect the character layout in the table.

It would be cool if these notes nodes could be linked to the wiki, and the wiki entries linked to the filters. That combined with a rating system, so the best could propagate to the top, would make ff semi-autodocumenting.

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ronviers wrote: Do you think it's practical? The way you are thinking about it; would be be easy enough to use for people to use it?

Well, it would work like this: you copy the text script component and change a text string in the source... there is no way to get a real text input in line with the other input/control types.. I guess that rules out a user or two, dunno..

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ronviers wrote: It would be cool if these notes nodes could be linked to the wiki, and the wiki entries linked to the filters. That combined with a rating system, so the best could propagate to the top, would make ff semi-autodocumenting.

LOL! And make coffee too? Seriously, what you talk about there is a completely different story - I'm not even sure that is possible with Lua (via FF). Even if it is, it requires a lot of coding and for sure some "unsafe" OS specific operations.

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Sphinx. wrote: copy the text script component and change a text string in the source

That’s not clear, but it’s because I have not done enough homework. I played around with the script node for the first time today. It’s not a total mystery anymore but I have a lot of reading to do before I can make use of it.

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Sphinx. wrote: a completely different story

I didn't really think it was practical, just something that came to mind.

It’s been all me. I have not made a systematic effort to learn it. I will, but I have some other things I need to do first.

Thank you for all the work you have done to make lua accessible.

Any step up from the checkboxes would be fine with me.