On 23/01/2011, at 4:41 AM, Jeremy Selan wrote:

This sounds like a good solution, much less error prone than storing the dropdown in the node itself.

The J_3Way node (http://major-kong.blogspot.com/2010/01/jops-10v1a5-released.html ) has a nice UI to load a grade from a .ccc file - when you click the "Import" button, you get a dialog with a drop-down of all the ID's, and it shows a preview of the values, and the description:

Something like this would be simple to do. Could allow an arbitrary string input with a "<Custom>" item in the drop-down, which reveals a string input knob.