TextShow

TextShow does one thing: shows you a string. Feed it any text and it passes it through untouched, displaying the value right on the node in the UI. That's the entire job - the class is even called TranslatorShow. It takes an input_text (multiline, defaults to empty) and returns it unchanged out of output as the same STRING type. No translation, no processing, no API call. If that sounds underwhelming, it is - in exactly the way a mirror is.

Why it ships in a translator pack

CNtranslator's input is forceInput - it can't be typed into, only wired. TextShow is the text-entry half of that pair. You type or paste your Chinese prompt into input_text (it's multiline and editable, unlike its sibling's input), then wire TextShow's output into CNtranslator's input. Together they make the workflow the pack is really for: TextShow → CNtranslator → CLIP Text Encode.

Standing on its own, TextShow is still handy as a string inspector. Any node that produces text - a prompt builder, a LoRA stack with baked-in tags, a randomizer - can be tapped into TextShow, and on Queue the result shows up on the node so you can see exactly what downstream nodes are receiving.

Gotchas

There's not much to trip over, because there's not much to it. The display only updates when the graph runs - output nodes render on Queue, not as you type, so don't expect live feedback. And it's a pure pass-through: what you see is precisely what your downstream nodes get. If you were hoping for comma normalization or quote stripping, that's not this node. It's also not unique - "Show Text"-style utilities exist in bigger packs like WAS Node Suite if you want one bundled with a lot more.

Install

It's the same pack as its sibling, so you get both nodes at once. Via ComfyUI Manager, search "CNtranslator" and install, then restart. Or manually:

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/SleeeepyZhou/ComfyUI-CNtranslator

Restart ComfyUI. Zero model downloads, zero heavy dependencies - the only requirement is requests, which ComfyUI already has.

Don't install this pack for TextShow alone; a pass-through text display is a utility so small it barely counts as a node. But if you're already using CNtranslator, TextShow is its natural text-entry point and costs you nothing extra - it's in the same install, it's free, and it makes the translate workflow actually usable.