Ha. 
I introduced red for up purely because it was impossible to read scripts from a 
comper friend without it. 

I also like my code coloured, though I only gleam a bit of extra info from it. 
Oddly enough my code is just as crap either way  ;)

Howard

On 5 Oct 2012, at 03:18, Nathan Rusch <nathan_ru...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Personally I’m heavily against pipe coloring in my own environment. Even when 
> untangling someone else’s mess, I find it easier to just use Nuke’s 
> highlighting of the parent hierarchy of the current selection than having to 
> visually process a mass of neon spaghetti. I think some of the same logic 
> from this article 
> (http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/index.php) is 
> directly applicable to overly colorful trees, though I don’t necessarily 
> agree with all the points he makes.
>  
> -Nathan
> 
>  
> From: Marten Blumen
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 1:52 PM
> To: Nuke user discussion
> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Script Layout, was new comp stack node survey
>  
> Anyone have thoughts on coloured lines in the Node Graph   Just like coloured 
> Nodes, would colouring lines help reading the flow. i.e like the London Tube 
> map. I'm experimenting with turning off Node Colors/AutoColor and manual 
> colouring important nodes.  Would it help to be able to do that to lines?
> 
> Famous Tube map redesign; maybe some ideas in this
> http://www.design-technology.info/alevelsubsite/page5.htm
> 
> On 4 October 2012 20:39, Howard Jones <mrhowardjo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Might pinch that, however the label I use may be main mattes, rather than 
>> the last node name.
>>  
>> And of course they can have multi channels in them.
>>  
>> I just found when you have pipes running several 'pages' worth, it saves all 
>> that scrolling up and down. But requires a bit of copy and paste. Obviously 
>> there are tools to modify multiple nodes at once on nukepedia.
>>  
>> Maybe the python could be modified to take one master dot at the top and 
>> copy its label? Hmmmm.
>>  
>> Howard
>> 
>> On 4 Oct 2012, at 03:22, Frank Rueter <fr...@beingfrank.info> wrote:
>> 
>>> bugger tcl.
>>> 
>>> def getParentNode(node):
>>> parentNode = node.input(0)
>>> if parentNode.Class() == 'Dot':
>>> return getParentNode(parentNode)
>>> else:
>>> return parentNode.name()
>>> 
>>> nuke.knobDefault('Dot.label', "[python getParentNode(nuke.toNode('Dot1'))]")
>>>  
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10/4/12 1:46 PM, chris wrote:
>>>> On 10/3/12 at 12:57 AM,  (Howard Jones) wrote: 
>>>>> my favorite - label the dots. And have one just before inputs so you can 
>>>>> easily see where each input came from.
>>>> 
>>>> i like that one a lot! just added this to my menu.py 
>>>> 
>>>> nuke.knobDefault('Dot.label', ' [value input0.name]') 
>>>> 
>>>> might be worth thinking about how to get the name of the next non-dot node 
>>>> when traveling up the tree (in case one uses several dots in a row to 
>>>> direct the flow), but no idea how to do that through TCL. 
>>>> 
>>>> ++ chris 
>>>> 
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