[PD-dev] Tabbed Console plugin

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Sat Oct 3 19:37:58 CEST 2009


That's awesome!  It just worked for me, using pd-devel Tcl/Tk 8.5  
(this plugin requires 8.5), here's my simple example patch:

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.hc

On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Andr?s Mur?nyi wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> i've attached the first version of a Tabbed Console plugin. The goal  
> is that new messages can be sorted on new tabs by their prefix (the  
> part before the colon).
> It already has a bug since it cannot deal with so many tabs that go  
> offscreen as ttk doesn't provide an easy way to scroll tabs. With  
> the brand new startup order in Pd it seems OK as startup plugins  
> start only when libs and everything are loaded so the big flood of  
> messages is over when the plugin starts. However if you can take  
> your time please test it under real life circumstances and feed me  
> back if your tabs have run out of space soon.
>
> Also i have tried to impement a kind of META comment system in the  
> source - not to flash my credits but because later i imagine a  
> window in Pd that would automatically list available plugins with  
> their description and let the user enable/disable them. If the META  
> system looks alrite later i will try to make that window up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Muranyi Andras
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