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TheBeat
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What is a practical way to make comments in the editor? I want these for myself, as well for people who want to look inside my filters. I have seen people using the Checkbox component (not connected) as a way to write some rudimentary comment. That seems hardly a practical way to work. Every piece of good programming should be supplied with additional comments, so I am thought smile:-) And I agree.

I am afraid that a good way to place comments is not available in FF yet (I hope I am wrong). Would more people would like to see a good way to put comments in? In the filter Info one can note something, but that seems hardly enough and has no direct connection to the place where the comment is deemed. What are your thoughts about this?
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GMM
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A good way to place comments is still in the works.
For now, we recommend to use the Map Script component. You can also give a more meaningful name to it, like 'Comments'.
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TheBeat
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Thank you, the Map Script component seems like a reasonable alternative until a proper 'comments' way is implemented.
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Indigo Ray
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For short comments I use color controls like so.

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TheBeat
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For short comments I use color controls like so.


That is also a good idea for short notes and directions. The color coding can take on a meaning.
Still I hope that a proper way of commenting will be in the next update. It seems really basic to me. Every programming environment I know has it smile:-)
Also it would be nice to be able to draw colored outlines around specific groups of components, to show that they belong together. Often Groups can't be used for that purpose, as a Group can have only 1 output.
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TheBeat
Beat
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I have just been playing around with a complicated filter of someone else and I realized the following :
A controller used as a way of commenting or a controller that has lost it's connection to the component it's supposed to control, they look the same. So in the filter I was messing with, I came upon a loose controller and was not sure if it was a comment or had lost it's connection.
Maybe we all could adopt a common agreed upon token that indicates a comment, f.i. @ or # or any other sign.
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