[PD-dev] Tabbed Console plugin

[András Murányi]

2009/10/12 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>

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> On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:08 PM, András Murányi wrote:
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> 2009/10/8 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>
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>> 2009/10/5 Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk>
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>>> On 02/10/2009, at 20.45, András Murányi wrote:
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>>>  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).
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>>>
>>> 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
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>> 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.
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> 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:
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>> x1: Walk
>> x1: the
>> x1: dog
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> ...than this:
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>> x1: Walk
>> the
>> dog
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> Well, you'd lose the nice columns that form when the prefix is the same on
> every line.
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Uh... right now i got no nice columns, no same prefix on each line, only on
the first line.
My suggestion is exactly that, to put it on every line.

-- 
Muranyi Andras
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