Thank you James, that did help. You must have a Mac export window.
I was incorrectly thinking that detailed views of multiple Macros could be viewable in one window, at the same time.
An attempt to document the Macros feature:
NodeEditor MACROS
1. To create a new Macro container:
In a nodeeditor window, right click on the screen, and select Macro, then select Create.
This creates a small box labeled Macro,
which is the Macros/Container as per the i Node Info window on the right of the screen.
(In effect this small box is a condensed second screen, a "Back" screen.)
2. There are two ways to open the Macros container and see the "Back" screen:
a. Double click on the Macros container.
b. Right click on the Macros container and select Open.
In the info window, the name of the Macro container may be changed, for example to QuartzClock.
3. To build a Macro:
In the "Back" screen, build what amounts to a .nod program.
Right click on an open area, select Node, then select a particular node,
for example Node/Basic/Quartz, also select Node/Widgets/Slider and change its name to Frequency.
Color can also be changed.
Right click on an open area, and select Output. (Input can be selected if needed.)
Wire Frequency to Quartz, and Quartz to Output.
Select the Back button at the top of the screen.
This returns to the main node screen, and the Macro container now has an output dot.
Right click on the Macro container and Export it to the Macro subdirectory, with an appropriate name.
Note that the Macro container "Back" window may also have other Macros loaded and wired in as well,
but they will appear as condensed Macro containers (with sub Back windows).
Nested Macros containers:
Note that steps 1, 2, and 3 can be repeated in a second condensed Macros container opened in the "Back" window,
and have also have subordinate "Back" window(s), so as to make nested Macros.
In summary, the Macro appears as a "condensed" .nod file, until opened in a "Back window."
This can "unclutter" a complicated and large .nod program file.
I do not see any way to view the entire detail of some wired node ensemble of multiple nodes and macros, in one window.
Importing a previously saved Macro is straightforward, and not documented here.
Multiple saved Macros may be imported to the main nodeeditor screen, but appear in "condensed" form there, and may be wired together
along with regular nodes.
- Brian
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