Hi all. How about a survey.
We all must do certain tasks over and over again that require in some cases extensive workarounds because a component doesn't exist. What workaround do you use most often? A few that I would love to see turned into components: 1) Map values to user-defined domain. Begone foul functions! 2) Filter/Weave component: ability to accept multiple gate values and filter by index value. I have two streams of identical length. I want to filter this into one stream of the same original length but by picking values in a binary fashion by index number. That is give a list of 0,1,0,1,1,1,etc values that determine the piece of data chosen for index positions 0,1,2,3,4,5, respectively. As of now I have to generate cull patterns to eliminate unwanted data and then use the Weave component. It seems to me that the Filter stream component should accept multiple gate indices and use this "one value per index" behavior. 3) Shift branch - A component that works like the Shift List component but works on entire branches. I find myself using a workaround for this all the time... which involves a lot of flattening, number series, subsets, and regrouping and/or path extraction and list shifting. 4) Split data into paths - You want to divide the flat list of 15 values into 5 sets of 3. No problem, but it involves creating two number series, a list of intervals, and subsets. I would love a component where you just plug in the list and the group size list as a repeating mask. In this case, "3". The component takes the first 3 values and makes it a path, the next three values and makes it a path, etc, until the list runs out. Alternatively, you could provide a series of numbers that work as a repeating set. "3,4,5" would create paths with N=3, N=4, N=5, N=3, N=4, N=5, N=3, etc, until the list runs out. Good, no? 5) Lists within lists. I think you know what I'm talking about. Breaking down lists into flattening, making subsets, doing an operation, and then rebuilding the original path structure based on list length components farther back in the tree. Lists of lists would make this so much dreamier. Other little wishes: 1) Duplicate data: option to generate new paths for each duplicated data set 2) Override icon preview: really helpful for Parameter, and VBScript nodes, especially. I love icon view but hate that I have to live with the icons for parameters and script buttons without differentiation. There are a few others that I'm forgetting, but perhaps someone can add some to this thread as well. Marc
