Using unique names for nodes of different types

[LeonCheung]

Hi, since I got used to add nodes by searching, I think this would be a much quicker way to add nodes (for me at least :P). However, just found it didn't work well with the recent changes.

You can see from the screenshot, I can hardly tell which "Animate" or "Math" is the one I really want. So I think unique names for them will be helpful here?

[JacquesLucke]

Do you want to do that youself?
Go to the nodes folder. There is a file called mn_node_list and there you can change the menu-name for every node very easy

[LeonCheung]

You mean it is something that should be DIY locally? Btw, I find four "Combine" nodes in the search menu, which is really confusing I suppose LOL. And, some nodes are not quite aligned with its default name, for example, Substrings is called "Slice" now, but the title for the new-created one is still called "Substrings". I think they should use the same title, right?

[JacquesLucke]

yeah you're right.
I never used the search, so I forget that. These 4 combine nodes would make sense if you would only use the normal menu.
Vector -> Combine
Color -> Combine
Text -> Combine, etc.

But as I said. feel free to change the names in this file to something more useful:
https://github.com/JacquesLucke/animation-nodes/blob/master/nodes/mn_node_list.py
and then make a Pull Request again :)

I'm doing something else currently

[LeonCheung]

Sure, I'm glad to help on improvement on usibility. But I still want to discuss the neccessarity with you, in case you may disagree with it :) Believe me, Adding nodes by searching is the fastest way to do so. Fine, I'll try to find all things I can think of on naming things and pull, then leave them to you to decide whether to merge or not. :P

[JacquesLucke]

I plan to integrate some Pie menus in the future for some nodes. This is even faster I think :p

Ok thank you

[LeonCheung]

Omg, that would a great idea! Yeah, it is even more possible since the new 2.72 feature allow things like triggering sub-menus more conveniently.

[JacquesLucke]

yeees
but this is all stuff for the future (for me at least)

I mostly work on some internal stuff and the more difficult nodes

Everything else should be much easier then

[JacquesLucke]

thanks. these changes are really good :)

[JacquesLucke]

should the sound nodes also have Sound in their name?
then you can search for Sound and get the two nodes

[LeonCheung]

That would be nice. The previous pulls focused more on distinguishability on convenient searching. I leave them untouched because they got their unique titles (so far). But Adding sound would be even nicer for searching especially. :)

[JacquesLucke]

Feel free to do so hehe