[PD-dev] control backspace inside tk entry

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Fri, 6/10/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] control backspace inside tk entry
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pd-dev" <pd-dev at iem.at>
> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 6:03 PM
> 
> On Jun 10, 2011, at 2:03 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 6/10/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> >> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] control backspace inside tk
> entry
> >> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: "pd-dev" <pd-dev at iem.at>
> >> Date: Friday, June 10, 2011, 6:07 AM
> >> 
> >> Looking forward to an update on your search
> plugin, its
> >> already really good.
> >> 
> >> I think that the Tk text widget has all of this
> stuff built
> >> into it.  Then you just need to lock it down
> a bit to
> >> act like a Tk entry.
> > 
> > From http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/text.htm (under
> "Bindings"):
> > 
> > "[29]
> >    Meta-backspace and Meta-Delete delete the
> word to the left of the insertion cursor."
> > 
> > Unfortunately I don't seem to have a "Meta" key
> anywhere on my keyboard.
> > Tried <ctrl>-delete, <alt>-delete,
> <fn>-delete, <Super>-delete, finally
> > tried <ctrl>-<alt>-delete then logged in
> again.  (Oops.)
> > 
> > I'm already using a combobox instead of an entry
> widget (to get a
> > drop-down history), and I have a feeling it would be a
> royal pain to
> > get the text widget to act like a combobox.
> > 
> > What's worse is that these default bindings don't seem
> to exist for
> > entry.  Evidently no one who uses tk needs to
> delete whole words unless
> > there are multiple lines...
> 
> 
> 
> The other thing to check is whether the ttk entry supports
> those bindings.  ttk is included in Tcl/Tk 8.5. 
> The puredata 0.43 Debian/Ubuntu/Mint package uses 8.5, and
> Pd-extended uses 8.5.

It's not listed as a default binding.  Is using <ctrl>-<delete> to clear 
the word to the left of the insertion point a relatively new standard 
or something?

> 
> .hc
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all
> others of exclusive property, it is the action of the
> thinking power called an idea, which an individual may
> exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but
> the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
> possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess
> himself of it.            -
> Thomas Jefferson
> 
> 
>