That's an interesting idea. You should definitely file a feature request ;-)
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On Mar 14, 2008, at 12:22 PM, vade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I really wish there was a checkbox somewhere to force computation for a selected patch/object.

This would ease debugging greatly.

QC being able to optimize by only computing 'upstream' patches if the downstream consumer is active is great for when the app is running, but it does indeed make debugging a bit of a pain.

It would be nice to be able to select the furthest downstream patch and 'force' it and its upstream patches to execute for debugging purposes.

Is there any way around this besides patching a dummy consumer?

Sorry, do not mean to derail an interesting thread, i just often find myself doing exactly that and sighing a bit more to myself every time.


... like now :) To see your composition graph's peak speed, try attaching the output to something that does next to no work, but is a red patch. For example, attach the output image to the enable input of an empty Iterator patch set to 0 iterations -- this means the iterator does essentially no work, but the rest of the graph gets evaluated anyway. This will tell you how fast QC can process your graph without any graphical output overhead. By disabling the only output, it causes QC to stop executing _any_ of the patches, which probably isn't what you want.

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