[PD] 3 new gui-plugins

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:53 PM, yvan volochine 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)

I think many people prefer this kind of auto-complete, or at least it  
is not uncommon.  So its good to have no matter if there is a bash- 
style plugin or not.

I'm trying to think if there is a way to keep or get the coordinates  
of the object itself.  On the C-side there is, plus when an object is  
created or edited then the GUI knows the location of it.  Here's how,  
in your pdtk_text_editing, you just need to query the coords of the  
active text widget.  This is a rough attempt that just gets a menu  
popping up:

proc pdtk_text_editing {mytoplevel tag editing} {
     set tkcanvas [tkcanvas_name $mytoplevel]
     set rectcoords [$tkcanvas coords ${tag}R]
     if {$rectcoords ne ""} {
         set x [expr int([lindex $rectcoords 0])]
         set y [expr int([lindex $rectcoords 1] - 20)]
         pdtk_post "currently editing at: $x $y\n"
         if {! [winfo exists .completepopup] } {
             menu .completepopup
             .completepopup add command -label mod -command bell
             .completepopup add command -label moses -command bell
         }
         tk_popup .completepopup $x $y
     }
     if {$editing == 0} {
         selection clear $tkcanvas
         # auto-completion
         set ::completions {}
         set ::new_object false
         set ::lock_motion false
         set ::cycle false
     } {
         set ::editingtext($mytoplevel) $editing
         # auto-completion
         set ::new_object $editing
     }
     $tkcanvas focus $tag
}

.hc


>
> 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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