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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Fri, 7/15/11, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> From: IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD-dev] replace spaces in list class names with hyphens
> To: pd-dev at iem.at
> Date: Friday, July 15, 2011, 10:18 AM
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 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?

So if object "foo" has a 2nd inlet controlled by a proxy object "bar", which class is referred to by t_object *ob of glist_drawio in g_text.c: foo or bar?

> 
> gfmasdr
> IOhannes
> 
> [1]
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1544083&group_id=55736&atid=478072
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
> 
> iEYEARECAAYFAk4f984ACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvTpDQCcDJRCiMa6Ai9IYvFNp84wJCJY
> EyMAoIhuOhVq2Sra+Uhi8DOpZ8az1cLg
> =XO7J
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Pd-dev mailing list
> Pd-dev at iem.at
> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
>