[PD] who is using [entry]?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I plan to support all of the Tk key symbols in that [key( message   
but I haven't found an easy way to do that yet.  Here's the list of  
symbols used for keys in Tcl/Tk:

http://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/keysyms.htm

Basically, in Tcl, I need a way to insert the character using the key  
symbol.

.hc

On Nov 19, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:

> 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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