[PD] who is using [entry]?

[Mike McGonagle]

Thanks, Hans, once again, I hit just reply instead of reply to all...
I did a quick test on the key message, and it appears that some keys are
still not allowed. Such things as a double quote ("), a percent sign (%),
and left bracket ([) (but it does allow a right bracket), the backslash (\)
and a tilde (~). All of these characters can be typed directly into the
[text] widget.

While I know some of the characters are special in PD, some of these things
are probably needed to support the full character set that SQL can
recognize.

I was hoping that I could use a [text] object as a buffer to create multiple
SQL statements that would get sent to the server as a group. I kind of think
this would be useful in storing data in a database, in hopes of keeping down
the number of things sent to the server at once. I was toying with the idea
of adding this to the SQL external itself, but I seem to be running into a
problem that I can't troubleshoot, as it doesn't appear to have any rhyme or
reason as to why it acts that way.

Thanks for your help,

Mike


On Nov 19, 2007 4:10 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

>
> I cc'ed the list since it's of general interest.
>
> This message is called [append( for lists/atoms and [key( for individual
> keystrokes (i.e. "space" makes a space char).
>
> .hc
>
> On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
>
> Hans,
> I was wondering if it would be possible to add some messages that [text]
> would use to append its buffer? I would think things similar to what a
> message box already understands, things like 'add', 'add2', 'addsemi',
> 'addcomma', 'adddollar', and 'adddollarsym'.
>
> Or is there something already in place?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 2:32 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner < hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
> >
> > > On 11/14/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> > >> Right, not directly.  This hopefully will allow people to do things
> > >> like write SQL queries in [text] or have a chat app that allows all
> > >> punctuation.
> > >>
> > >> Since each key typed outputs a [key ( messages from the right status
> > >> outlet, it would be possible to make an object which would let you
> > >> create messages separated by commas, if you wanted.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I was playing with 'entry' in the 4 extended (one of the nightly build
> > > from last week), and I noticed that there was not an indication of
> > > there being a second outlet on the right, but it is there.
> >
> > Fix in CVS>
> >
> > > I also
> > > noted that there is no 'help' file for it, but it was there in the 39
> > > extended.
> >
> > Yeah, the help file problem is thruout 0.40.3-extended builds AFAIK...
> >
> > > Also, is there some way to change the font size? As it is right now
> > > the font is really small.
> >
> > Coming soon... :) (or build tkwidgets from source)
> >
> > .hc
> >
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