Verify Guide - Custom Types

[Cesar-S]

Expected behavior

Should it be possible to connect output-self node to input-time?

Actual behavior

Following the tutorial at the end you can not connect "time" with "unpack".

Realized the patch "time" (https://xod.io/docs/guide/custom-types/time.patch.png)

It is not possible to connect it to "unpack" (https://xod.io/docs/guide/custom-types/unpack-example.patch.png) ,instead of output-self you must use output-time

[nkrkv]

To me, everything seems right. The output-self node is a marker, not a terminal actually. It has no inputs and no outputs. The sole purpose of output-self on a patch is to tell XOD that this patch defines a new type. XOD will generate the output-time and input-time as a consequence of output-self placement.

The example used in the guide is not fake and it is an actual project which you can download here https://xod.io/docs/guide/custom-types/time.xodball. See the unpack-example patch. There time is linked with unpack.

If I do not understand you correctly, and there’s indeed a bug out there, feel free to reopen the issue.

[Cesar-S]

Dear @nkrkv , eh downloaded the example and it works correctly, but I have the error in unpack.

I open another XOD, I create two patches, in a copied node "time" and when I want to copy unpack there is an error.

"Invalid paste
The clipboard contains references to missing patches: @ / input-time.
Try to install libraries which provide the required patches. "

For some reason I do not have Input-time and output-time in my libraries.

The error is that by not having them use input-datatime

[Cesar-S]

As you might notice, at the moment you place an output-self node on a constructor patch two new terminal nodes are automatically generated next to the constructor patch. In our example, they are input-time and output-time.

I found my error, translation or reading problem
thank you for your time excuse me

[nkrkv]

Oh, the message is indeed misleading. I’m going to rephrase the issue and promote it to a tweak.

[Cesar-S]

Something to add that might be useful, when I did the tutorial, look for the xodball I did not find this link https://xod.io/docs/guide/custom-types/time.xodball
I've looked again and no this.

With a little searching I come here https://github.com/xodio/xod-docs/tree/master/docs/guide/custom-types if the files are there.