[PD] cpu load indicator..

adam armfield adamairmailed at yahoo.com
Wed May 25 00:40:53 CEST 2005


yes that sounds like a really good idea, perhaps if an
autocomplete feature fills in as much of the name as
it can in the box, then displays the choices in the
console, linux style..

adam


 --- "B. Bogart" <ben at ekran.org> wrote: 
> How about multiple matches getting printed to the PD
> console? A lot less
> work to do this, and not losing much functionality
> to the fancy GUI mode...
> 
> Does PD hold the names of all abstractions/objects
> in a tcl/C array
> somewhere?
> 
> B.
> 
> adam armfield wrote:
> > hi Mathieu
> >
> > those examples look good, i was thinking of a very
> > direct method, like typing in a linux terminal, so
> > that the rest of the object name would appear in
> the
> > object box being created, or when there are a
> number
> > of options beginning with ff* for instance, then
> maybe
> > an additional max msp type box like shown in your
> > screenshots which highlights a choice/guess
> > immediately, so focus shifts to the "object choice
> > list box" and the choice of object made using the
> > up/down cursor keys....
> >
> > the linux style tab autocomplete seemed like a
> very
> > elegant way to do this, what i had in mind was
> some
> > kind of method which doesn't even use any extra
> boxes,
> > but completes the rest of the object name (or as
> much
> > of the name as possible before the user has to
> choose
> > the final letters to select the object they want)
> >
> > all the best
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>another one i've been mulling over is some kind
> of
> >>
> >>linux style tab
> >>
> >>>autocomplete feature which guesses the name of
> the
> >>
> >>object one is
> >>
> >>>creating when tab is pressed.. maybe could speed
> >>
> >>things up a bit
> >>
> >>You mean sort of like the following?
>
http://artengine.ca/matju/impd/gallery/completions.gif
>
http://artengine.ca/matju/impd/gallery/class_list_3.gif
> 


		
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