From 780e266a8873c8dd1d975f4ec43c000d59e4c344 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eugene <eugeneahlers@live.co.za>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:51:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] added show text js

---
 web/show_text.js | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 web/show_text.js

diff --git a/web/show_text.js b/web/show_text.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75a26a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/show_text.js
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+import { app } from "../../../scripts/app.js";
+import { ComfyWidgets } from "../../../scripts/widgets.js";
+
+app.registerExtension({
+  name: "LogToWorkspace.Extension",
+  async beforeRegisterNodeDef(nodeType, nodeData, app) {
+    const targetNodes = ["LogToWorkspace", "LogToWorkspaceAdv"];
+    if (targetNodes.includes(nodeData.name)) {
+      // 1. GENERATE THE GENUINE TEXTAREA WIDGET ON CREATION
+      const onNodeCreated = nodeType.prototype.onNodeCreated;
+      nodeType.prototype.onNodeCreated = function () {
+        onNodeCreated?.apply(this, arguments);
+
+        // Use the official ComfyUI STRING widget constructor for multi-line boxes
+        const widgetResult = ComfyWidgets["STRING"](
+          this, // The node instance object
+          "displayed_text", // The name of your custom widget
+          ["STRING", { multiline: true }], // Tells Comfy to spin up a textarea element
+          app, // Pass the current app reference
+        );
+
+        const widget = widgetResult.widget;
+
+        // Configure parameters for read-only tracking logs
+        widget.inputEl.readOnly = true;
+        widget.inputEl.style.opacity = "0.85"; // Gives it a clean, greyed-out terminal appearance
+        widget.serializeValue = () => undefined; // Prevents logging bloat inside saved workflow metadata
+
+        // 2. DEFER REPOSITIONING: Let ComfyUI finish initialization loops first to stop the "true" bug
+        setTimeout(() => {
+          const currentIdx = this.widgets.indexOf(widget);
+          if (currentIdx > -1) this.widgets.splice(currentIdx, 1);
+          this.widgets.splice(0, 0, widget);
+        }, 5);
+
+        // Adjust standard node bounding boxes
+        if (nodeData.name === "LogToWorkspaceAdv")
+          this.size = [400, 340]; // Room for text area above the toggle checkboxes
+        else this.size = [400, 240]; // Default dimension
+
+        // Force layout dimensions to fit the new HTML element
+        // this.size = [400, 200];
+        this.setDirtyCanvas(true, true);
+      };
+
+      // 2. FORCE SYNC BACKEND PAYLOADS STRAIGHT INTO THE HTML DOM
+      const onExecuted = nodeType.prototype.onExecuted;
+      nodeType.prototype.onExecuted = function (message) {
+        onExecuted?.apply(this, arguments);
+
+        if (message?.text) {
+          const textValue = message.text.join("\n");
+          const widget = this.widgets?.find((w) => w.name === "displayed_text");
+
+          if (widget) {
+            // Sync internal LiteGraph state
+            widget.value = textValue;
+
+            // Sync native browser DOM textarea so the lines warp and update visually
+            if (widget.inputEl) {
+              widget.inputEl.value = textValue;
+
+              // AUTO-SCROLL MECHANISM: Automatically tracks and pulls down to show the latest logs
+              widget.inputEl.scrollTop = widget.inputEl.scrollHeight;
+            }
+
+            this.setDirtyCanvas(true, true);
+          }
+        }
+      };
+    }
+  },
+});