cleaning scripts and one control panel question

[mondochiba]

hi everone,

two short nuke questions:

1.
in the manual it says, that channels in a script can't be deleted once you created them
-does that mean, that all the channels that I generated on the fly to test things float around
in my script forever?
from what I tested so far, that seems to be the case.

what deleted them was to copy all nodes and paste them in a fresh script.
only the currently active channels survived (at least so it seems from what I checked)

is this a procedure you would recommend, or does this mess up some inner workings of my script?

2.
when I doubleclick certain nodes (e.g. bezier) to bring them up in the control panel, some values are "autoselected" (in case of the bezier its the "mix"-value

so, when I doubleclick a node and instantly press a number to pipe it in a viewer, very often I accidently change e.g. the mix value instead. this seems to slow down work, since I always have to

1.doublelick the node
2.click somewhere or press esc to deselect the value in the control panel
3. press the number for the viewer

this is a little annoying. I know I could press the number fot the viewer first and then doubleclick the node,

but is there anyway to turn of this autoselect behaviour?


thanks

[rueter]

1. that's fine. you could just use the File/Import Script option to clean up unused channels as well but that is technically doing the same thing as copy/pasting the nodes so either way is fine. I agree though, there should be an option to do this within the current script.


2. unfortunately there is no way around the auto selected knob at this point (at least not on windows as far as I know)

[mondochiba]

ok. thanks alot

[nathan]

Unused channel layers are not saved with a script, you could just save,close and open a script to stop displaying a channel in channel selection boxes that you are no longer using script wide.

As for the auto focus thing, yes it is annoying even here on the Linux side.