[PD] 3 new gui-plugins

[Pedro Lopes]

<amazed>
autocomplete
</amazed>

Respect. If it ever gets as near as bash completion on most linuxes, it will
be amazing for teaching/coding pd. Kudos yvan.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:53 PM, yvan volochine <yvan.pd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/03/2011 06:44 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:12 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
>>
>>  On 04/03/2011 05:57 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wow, I love the tab autocompletion plugin! What would be amazing if we
>>>> had a bash-style completion files were the arguments were also
>>>> tab-completable, when relevant. Things like filenames, table/array
>>>> names, send/receive names, etc. This completion file could be included
>>>> in libraries. It really highlights how badly we need Enter/Return to
>>>> instantiate the object.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I prefer the default tcsh/bash-style where tab doesn't cycle
>>>> thru the options when you hit tab repeatly. I could see a bash/tcsh
>>>> style display of the options, like in a popup when you hit tab
>>>> repeatedly.
>>>>
>>>
>>> hey thanks.
>>> I'm not really supposed to dedicate that ammount of time developping
>>> for pd but as I'm unemployed right now =)
>>> I'm afraid the bash style auto-completion is a bit above my head, but
>>> the idea is nice.
>>>
>>
>> Basically, the first is the trigger: hitting tab twice where the tab
>> does not add any more characters. So using your plugin as an example,
>> type M-O-Tab-Tab would then list 'mod' and 'moses' as options but not
>> change the 'mo' in the box. Those options could then be in a popup menu
>> to both see and select with the keyboard or mouse.
>>
>
> yeah that's what I wanted first: a ComboBox below the object box, but then
> I had troubles with object box coordinates (did the user click or is the
> object still moving with the cursor, etc...) and I started adding some "if"
> and all kind of stuff inside mouse motion procedures and that became nasty.
> this (and the fact that I wanted it now =) made me rewrite the plugin with
> the "cycling-through-completions-with-tab" behavior (which I still find very
> cool for speedy-patching)
>
> cheers,
> _y
>
>
>  Adding the argument completion would probably be a lot more work, but I
>> haven't really thought about it. But just having object name completion
>> is huge!
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>  One thing that needs to happen to make the auto-complete plugin more
>>>> deployable is to have all its procs in its own namespace. Otherwise
>>>> there can easily be name conflicts with other things named 'init',
>>>> 'trigger', etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> done
>>>
>>>  (FYI: sending to pd-announce also sends to pd-list)
>>>>
>>>
>>> okay
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> _y
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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