Show Text 🐍

Documentation

• Class name: ShowText|pysssss
• Category: utils
• Output node: True

The ShowText node is designed to display text within a workflow, allowing for dynamic updates to UI elements based on input text. It can also modify widget values within the workflow if provided with specific metadata, enhancing interactive capabilities.

Input types

Required

• text
  • The primary text to be displayed or processed. This input is essential for the node's operation, serving as the main content for display or further action.
  • Comfy dtype: STRING
  • Python dtype: str

Output types

• string
  • Comfy dtype: STRING
  • unknown
  • Python dtype: unknown
• ui
  • The UI representation of the text to be displayed, encapsulating the text in a format suitable for UI rendering.

Usage tips

• Infra type: CPU
• Common nodes:
  • Text Concatenate
  • Efficient Loader
  • CLIPTextEncode
  • CR Image Output
  • SavePromptToFile

Source code

class ShowText:
    @classmethod
    def INPUT_TYPES(s):
        return {
            "required": {
                "text": ("STRING", {"forceInput": True}),
            },
            "hidden": {
                "unique_id": "UNIQUE_ID",
                "extra_pnginfo": "EXTRA_PNGINFO",
            },
        }

    INPUT_IS_LIST = True
    RETURN_TYPES = ("STRING",)
    FUNCTION = "notify"
    OUTPUT_NODE = True
    OUTPUT_IS_LIST = (True,)

    CATEGORY = "utils"

    def notify(self, text, unique_id=None, extra_pnginfo=None):
        if unique_id is not None and extra_pnginfo is not None:
            if not isinstance(extra_pnginfo, list):
                print("Error: extra_pnginfo is not a list")
            elif (
                not isinstance(extra_pnginfo[0], dict)
                or "workflow" not in extra_pnginfo[0]
            ):
                print("Error: extra_pnginfo[0] is not a dict or missing 'workflow' key")
            else:
                workflow = extra_pnginfo[0]["workflow"]
                node = next(
                    (x for x in workflow["nodes"] if str(x["id"]) == str(unique_id[0])),
                    None,
                )
                if node:
                    node["widgets_values"] = [text]

        return {"ui": {"text": text}, "result": (text,)}