Ports can be indexed or named with arbitrary strings, however, that name may not be ideal for display purposes, such as in the GUI or in debug messages. Setting a port alias would create a displayable name for the port. The alias will default to an empty string and take its value from the port name.
Related tasks:
[x] PortInfo struct will gain an alias name when querying port info
[x] Review debug and logger calls to use the alias
[x] Make sure the GUI is using the alias when present
[x] for displaying the block ports in the graph editor
[x] showing both name and alias in block properties panel
[x] For gnuradio toolkit, extract the alias from grc source/sink tags and set them in the generated factory functions
Ports can be indexed or named with arbitrary strings, however, that name may not be ideal for display purposes, such as in the GUI or in debug messages. Setting a port alias would create a displayable name for the port. The alias will default to an empty string and take its value from the port name.
Related tasks: