[PD-dev] Tabbed Console plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:08 PM, András Murányi wrote:

>
>
> 2009/10/8 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
>
>
> 2009/10/5 Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk>
>
>
> On 02/10/2009, at 20.45, András Murányi wrote:
>
> 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).
>
> Thanks, could be useful.
>
> Just one comment. It doesn't handle lists all that well. Fx
>
> [Walk the dog(
> |
> [print x1]
>
> All the best,
> Steffen
>
> Thanks for the comments.
> I have switched off the autofocus, and put a variable to let folks  
> switch it on. However, i have no idea how to signal new messages as  
> i cannot even change the text in the tabs once created.
> Lists... they seem to be already chopped up at the C side. This  
> means the plugin cannot deal with lists.
>
> Now that I've been thinking about this for a while - wouldn't it be  
> OK to change the behaviour of [print PREFIX] so that when it chops  
> up lists, it puts PREFIX to the beginning of each line not only the  
> first?
> Staying with the above example, wouldn't this make more sense:
> x1: Walk
> x1: the
> x1: dog
>
> ...than this:
> x1: Walk
> the
> dog



Well, you'd lose the nice columns that form when the prefix is the  
same on every line.

.hc




----------------------------------------------------------------------------

'You people have such restrictive dress for women,’ she said, hobbling  
away in three inch heels and panty hose to finish out another pink- 
collar temp pool day.  - “Hijab Scene #2", by Mohja Kahf


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/attachments/20091012/e00cdbd2/attachment.htm>