As you’re editing your running composition, you may want to fire extra events so that your changes become immediately visible, rather than waiting for the next time a trigger port happens to fire.
You can cause a trigger port to fire an event by right-clicking on the trigger port to pop up a menu, then choosing ⌘ while left-clicking on the trigger port. If the trigger port carries data, it outputs its most recent data along with the event.
. Or you can hold downYou can also fire an event directly into an input port (as if it had an incoming cable from an invisible trigger port). To do this, you can right-click on the input port and choose ⌘ and left-click on the input port.
, or you can hold downIf you’ve already manually fired an event, you can fire another event through the same port by going to
. This fires an event through the trigger port or input port that most recently had an event manually fired.