[PD-dev] Tabbed Console plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:30 PM, András Murányi wrote:

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> 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.
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>> Just one comment. It doesn't handle lists all that well. Fx
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>> [Walk the dog(
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>> [print x1]
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>> 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:
>> x1: Walk
>> x1: the
>> x1: dog
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>> ...than this:
>> 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.

doh, yeah, sorry, I'd say all or one, or something to keep things in  
columns.

.hc

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