[PD] who is using [entry]?

[Mike McGonagle]

Thanks Hans, I think I have a working external for use with SQLite
standalone, now it is time to tackle the libdbi version (I need to figure
out why Fink is dysfunctional and won't let me finish the libdbi install).
Thanks for your help on this.


Mike


On Nov 26, 2007 2:34 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:

>
> FYI: I have shifted development to the tkwidgets version currnetly called
> [text].  I've stopped working on the original [entry].  tkwidgets should be
> built and included in tomorrow's nightly build, or you can build from source
> in 'externals/tkwidgets'.
>
> [key %( and [key ~( are working for me, but the others are not.  I'll see
> about implementing the symbolic names for everything (i.e. "rightbracket",
> "doublequote", etc.).
>
> I am definitely interested supporting your idea of constructing SQL
> statements in [text], so let me know what works and what doesn't.  I think
> there will be some wierdness inevitably since it'll have to work around Pd
> type system for things like backslash.
>
> .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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