You can rename and change published port ordering in the "Apple 3" Published 
INputs and Outputs in the inspector if you select the background of the current 
macro/patch you are in.


On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:18 PM, George Toledo wrote:

> On this note, has there been a rdar for renaming published inputs without 
> breaking them, as well as changing published order?
> 
> -George Toledo
> 
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Wright 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Make a few patches within a macro within a macro within a macro (ha), like 
> > iterator, render in image etc. Publish a few outputs to the parent patches 
> > and up through your macro 'graph' to the top most patch. Within one of the 
> > sub macros other than parent, decide you want to encapsulate something into 
> > a new macro (say for organizational purposes), and all of a sudden your 
> > published ports are no longer published, forcing you to re-publish them 
> > tediously. This has to be a bug right? I can feel my sanity wither away. :)
> 
> known bug: <rdar://problem/5905075>  (and oldie from the looks of it).
> 
> > I have some suggestions regarding publishing, etc.
> >       When you control click/right click on a patch and select "Publish 
> > inputs" or "Publish Outputs", can we have a that check next to the items be 
> > triggerable for more than one?
> >               ie: select "Publish Inputs", get a contextual menu of more 
> > than one item. Be able to click on multiple items to enable the checkbox 
> > and thus publish all of them from within the one menu. This would save 
> > enourmous amounts of time, and also give the user a choice in what to 
> > publish and not, unlike the Kineme work around which, iirc, publishes all 
> > input ports.
> >       Add an additional menu option underneath Publish Inputs / Outputs, 
> > which would be "Propagate all published inputs to top level patch" (as well 
> > as outputs), similar to Kinemes addition. For those of us who have to work 
> > without Kineme for various reasons, its a real loss, and ought to be within 
> > the QC Editor Proper.
> 
> publish-to-root functionality is <rdar://problem/5147904> (even older than 
> the above!)
> 
> Note that suggestions on-list are not the same a feature requests at 
> http://bugreporter.apple.com -- please remember to file things there once you 
> feel the idea is sufficiently discussed/refined.
> 
> This is a topic that has some already-known radars, but getting a really 
> refined set of what needs to happen would be a great thing to have discussed 
> some for a future version of QC.  Both of these radars were also filed 
> internally, so no one outside has bothered to do so from the looks of it 
> (neither have and significant duplicates from external users).
> 
> PS: In kinemecore you can do "publish all inputs" and then hit esc to _not_ 
> publish a given input when the publish name editor pops up for that port.  
> It's kludgy, but the best I could do without really breaking stuff :)
> 
> --
> Christopher Wright
> [email protected]
> 
> 
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