[PD-dev] replace spaces in list class names with hyphens

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 4:18 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

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> On 07/14/2011 11:55 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> I've got a working tooltip prototype going, and I just noticed that  
>> all the list classes screw up things on the tcl side, because with  
>> "list append" (for example) it suddenly looks like there is one  
>> more arg to the proc.
>>
>> Are there any other objects that have a space in the creator name?   
>> If not, could we just make it official that creator names can't  
>> have spaces, and change all the "list foo" creators objects to  
>> "list-foo"?
>>
>> This would be transparent to the user*, since they can still type  
>> "list foo" and list_new will instantiate the right class.   
>> (Although going forward I would suggest using "list-foo" as it is  
>> the standard for all the listabs abstractions.)
>>
>
> while i was always opposed to using object names with spaces [1], i
> don't think that we should forbid it at all. i would rather have the  
> GUI
> side have an idea of what is the object name and what are the  
> arguments
> (e.g. "create {list split} {1}" rather than "text list split 1")  
> than to
> add arbitrary limitations.
>
> some externals use "proxy objects" for full-fledged non-first inlets,
> and those proxies tend to have "hard to type" names as well. how do  
> your
> tooltips deal with those?


I have to agree. Though it is more work, I think we should support  
object names with any character in them.  Tcl can definitely do it  
without much difficulty, as long as  the details aren't ignored.

.hc



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