[PD-dev] revised search-plugin.tcl

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 21 02:13:20 CEST 2011



--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] revised search-plugin.tcl
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "pd-dev" <pd-dev at iem.at>
> Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 12:59 AM
> 
> On Jun 20, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 6/20/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> >> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] revised search-plugin.tcl
> >> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: "pd-dev" <pd-dev at iem.at>
> >> Date: Monday, June 20, 2011, 4:37 PM
> >>
> >>
> >> That's quite nice, looks and works very
> well.  You've
> >> taken my sketch and made it something far beyond
> what it was
> >> originally.
> >>
> >> One thing, I notice that for objects' help files,
> you strip
> >> the paths.
> >
> > I strip out everything except the immediate
> parent.  That way you can
> > still tell the difference between libs--
> intimacy/love-help.pd vs.
> > tennis/love-help.pd.  But I don't see a reason to
> display
> >
> /usr/local/softwares/classic-90s-interfaces/tinytinyscrollbarzplzthx/
> 
> > pd/doc/externals/Dr.Externals/...
> 
> One thing that might be useful to see is whether the
> library is  
> included or whether its a user-installed lib.

How does one tell the difference?

-Jonathan

> 
> >> That make sense, except it does the same
> >> for all_about* patches.  Also, that could get
> confusing
> >> when a search result finds something in an
> abstraction and
> >> its help file.
> >
> > I'm just testing it on pd vanilla at the moment:
> foo.pd displays as  
> > foo.pd,
> > and foo-help.pd displays as foo-help.pd.  Is it
> different for you?
> >
> > I'll rethink the all_about* regsub.  Probably
> just displaying "All  
> > About
> > foo" will look decent and not too repetitive...
> 
> Yeah, that sounds good.
> 
> .hc
> 
> >
> > -Jonathan
> >
> >>
> >> .hc
> >>
> >> On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Jonathan Wilkes
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Here's a revised version of the search-plugin
> that
> >> Hans started:
> >>>
> >>> * fixed problem with double results if a path
> dir was
> >> a subdir of another
> >>> * can search for phrases by using double
> quotes
> >>> * search for whole words or partial matches
> >>> * search for all or any terms
> >>> * better scrollbar (ttk::scrollbar)
> >>> * Google-style search history (press the
> down-arrow in
> >> the search box to
> >>> make it appear, Escape to make it go away)
> >>> * hacked a proc to get <control-delete>
> to
> >> delete previous word
> >>>
> >>> Requires tcl/tk 8.5. Works best with the
> revised pddp
> >> docs (i.e., if you
> >>> want to search by the keywords listed you'll
> need
> >> them).
> >>>
> >>>
> >> -Jonathan<search- 
> >>
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