Replace Module.

Oh yeah, this is a must.

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Kraellin wrote:not a biggie for me with the one exception of an optional replace old switch component with new switch component or old blend with new blend. in other words, if it's the same component, but just an old type replaced by a new type of the same kind, then great!

----Well, see even someone who maybe works totally differently than uberzev or myself, could benefit from it somehow. I just often find myself being "experimental" (since I usually have no idea what I'm doing ha-ha) and moving/switching stuff around a lot, and in those cases, a *replace module(s)* function would save me several minutes and a lot of clicking and scrolling around.
----Seems like being able to specify how many nodes you wanted on the switch might be good, but might be more hassle to program in then it's worth, since other than screen space, it's fine having all 6 or 8 or whatever available all the time. I'd almost say the same for filters, as far as having previous versions available. Because I know when I update one of mine, it gets changed a bit, just by the nature of wanting to speed it up, or add features, the original output will never quite be 100% the same.

jffe

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Vladimir Golovin wrote: jffe wrote: Seems like being able to specify how many nodes you wanted on the switch might be good, but might be more hassle to program in then it's worth Yes, that's exactly why this wasn't implemented.

Well, a version that simply replacees the output would be usefull and easy to implement.

I wanted to ask if something like this has been implemented in the meantime.
It would be really useful.
I need to replace a component with a different one (of the same sort) and it's a source for dozens of components further down the chain and all over the place. I don't want to loose/redo all of those connections.

Thx a lot! I'll keep that possibility in mind.
In the case at hand I ended up replacing it by hand by moving the old component to a place were the outgoing connections stood out clearly. (Their angle being different fr om most other connections.) Then I kept the old component, created the new one and replaced the connections one by one. (Seems to be the logical thing to do, in hindsight )
But for a case with even more connections I'll keep your proposal in mind.

Where I can anticipate the need to change components I'll just use a switcher in the future, which will have to stay in the finished filter.

I can't tell how hard to code it would be, but it would be user friendly.
It would be enough if it just took the outgoing connections into consideration/preserved them. If you replace a "green" component with another green one, is it really that hard to reconnect the children back to that new parent? As long as the color/kind of the component match. If you want to replace a green with a gray one you get an error message.
That's exactly the right job for a computer in my book, not a human being. And having to switch to an external program is clunky and unnecessarily complicated, too. But I'm thankful for the workaround and the tips.

But it is a useful and smart option to know. So thx again, it wasn't my intention to criticize you.
I'm just saying, from my point of view as a non programmer, it doesn't seem too hard to implement something like this (if you restrict it to certain cases) when a more or less user controlled replacement in an external editor does the trick.

Now if it's worth the effort, I can't judge and surely there are more important things in the world and probably lots of more beneficial feature requests. And perhaps it's the fact that I'm not a programmer and do my first clumsy steps in Filter Forge, but I could have used a quick and simple in program solution to that problem already several times now.

(And perhaps my experience with programmers comes into play here, too.
Ask them something that they don't deem useful and you get:
No, I can't do this because of.......and it would be too complicated.... and by the way.....
And if they really have to do it after all it's done in half an hour.
Ok, I'm exaggerating a bit.)

If you have to replace one or very few components old components for new ones is not much problem, and could be done, although is not easy to replace a component as you have to configure again all the setting of the component and MAKE AGAIN all the links to others components related to this, BUT even then is possible.

BUT what happens when you need to replace many components in a filter like THIS shown here below!!!

This is a nearly impossible task