ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

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ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by druitre » 05 Feb 2013, 09:55

Hi,

has anyone had this happening? When creating a compound you can't rearrange the exposed ports/parameters. Move up or down does nothing or it moves the port before the one selected.

Merge with new scene does not help.

2013 SP1.

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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by csaez » 05 Feb 2013, 10:09

Perhaps group settings?

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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by druitre » 05 Feb 2013, 11:36

You mean when a port is in a group it can't be moved?

[edit] Or when a port is under a port that is in a group? (Because that is my situation)

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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by csaez » 05 Feb 2013, 12:12

Both :(
Change the port order gets trickier when there're groups in the mix, I always end up setting them directly in the xsicompound file.

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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by rray » 05 Feb 2013, 12:31

There's a bug where clicking the exposed ports doesn't work because there's an ice node underneath them, but this doesn't sound like that one. :-??
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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by druitre » 05 Feb 2013, 13:22

csaez wrote: I always end up setting them directly in the xsicompound file.
How do you mean?

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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by csaez » 05 Feb 2013, 14:11

You can edit the xsicompound file with any text editor and set the groups in the xml definition, it's a lot faster than using the GUI IMHO.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/xsi_lis ... KFcIr5scIJ

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Re: ICE compounds - exposed port/parameters not moving up/down

Post by druitre » 07 Feb 2013, 12:18

Good to know, thanks. Would prefer a working GUI though. (For instance, being able to just drag 'n drop to rearrange order of ports). Something for feature request, I guess.