Controller

The controller is a floating panel which reproduces widget inputs from all the red nodes in your workflow. That's pretty much it.

So you can use Comfy with it looking like this:

When the workflow really looks like this:

How to use

• Install the custom node

cd custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/chrisgoringe/cg-controller

• Set the nodes in your workflow you want to see the widgets from to be red
• Right-click the canvas and select 'Show Controller Panel'

Options

In the main comfy menu there are some options:

Show control after generate

By default the control_after_generate widget (attached to seeds and int primitives) is hidden. You can choose to show it.

Toggle controller visibility

You can choose one of four keyboard shortcuts to make the controller appear or disappear, or set it to none. Default is c.

Sliders

Options to replace numeric fields with slider inputs. Three choices

• No
• When exact
• When possible

A slider input is calibrated in 200 steps, so if the range of values divided by the precision (for floats) is greater than 200, a slider cannot be exact. When possible will use a slider anyway.

It's quite common for a numeric value not to be shown as a slider if you use When exact. If you change to When possible you might find it becomes a slider, but isn't usable because of the range of values (for instance, a slider for steps that goes from 0 to 2048 isn't much use).

In the settings menu you will find three controls, Override step size, Override min values and Override max values. Each of these has the same format, which is a comma separated list of overrides, each of which is either widget_name=value (applies to all matching widgets) or node_name:widget_name=value (only applies if both node and widget names match).

Using Override max values (and maybe Override min values) will allow you to make the sliders a lot more usable in When possible mode; using Override step size can make sliders appear in When exact mode.

The definition used for When exact is (max-min)/step <= 200

Anything else?

• You can make nodes brown to designate them as advanced controls
• If you change colors or widgets or names, use the 'Update Controller Panel' canvas menu (to be fixed - issue #34)
• To update the controller code (if you haven't added it via the manager)

cd custom_nodes/cg-controller
git pull

Bugs or ideas

Raise them as issues

Release history

v0.7 7/10/2024

• Image upload image updates
• Drag and drop images onto image upload
• Drag and drop to reorder nodes in the controller
• Controller update automated
• Settings to choose color for control nodes and advanced control nodes

v0.6 6/10/2024

• Added group selector
• Fixed positioning etc with new menu system

v0.5 5/10/2024

• Better controls for sliders (target by node, override min and step)
• hide control_after_generate
• submit to registry

v0.4 4/10/2024

• Added keyboard shortcuts
• Added sliders

v0.3 3/10/2024

• Updating the panel now picks up changes in widgets and colors
• Title changes now picked up
• Node order preserved in cases where it was lost

v0.2 3/10/2024

• Preserve height of resized text areas
• Close panel when workflow cleared
• Cleaned up the layout when multi column
• Submitted to Comfy Manager

v0.1 2/10/2024

• Added support for Image nodes
• Added 'advanced' colour

v0.0.9 1/10/2024

• Initial release