[PD] [PD-announce] completion-plugin new version

[yvan volochine]

On 05/21/2011 11:46 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
>>> that's great. don't know if you want to, but I would suggest to copy
>>> another useful max feature: when you click on a send or receive object
>>> (the same for their audio versions), a pop-up comes up listing how many
>>> other objects exist using the same variable, and by clicking in any of
>>> these objects it takes you to the patch where they are.
>>
>> AFAICS this is currently not possible because most of the gui is still
>> handle by pd (instead of tcl), therefore sub-patches are not
>> accessible, etc..
>
> You need to modify the 'find' method in the canvas class. You make one
> version that doesn't auto-select an item, but instead sends a list of
> all matches to the tcl side for your use.
[SNIP]

that's what I meant, it's currently not possible in a gui-plugin (i.e. 
in tcl only)

cheers,
_y