[PD] symbolatom: why does it not allow to type spaces?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You could use [hcs/version], if you don't get a response after a  
bang, it's probably not loaded.  Currently, that object only exists  
in Pd-extended, unless someone compiles it themself, so no response  
would mean not pd-extended, and therefore most likely won't have entry.

You might try [tkwidgets/text], it's a much enhanced version of Ben's  
[entry]. It has some bugs but I want to find them and fix them now,  
so bug reports would be much appreciated.

Also, I plan on making an object out of Tk's entry ([entry] is  
actually based on Tk's text).  Tk's entry is a one line text widget  
meant for data entry.

.hc

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Max Neupert wrote:

> if the situation with the symbolatom doesn't change i'd like to  
> make a workaround where preferably [entry] is used, but if not  
> available it will fall back to the symbol atom. is it possible to  
> detect somehow if entry is loaded sucessfuly?
>
> max
>
> Am 11.12.2007 um 04:09 schrieb Chris McCormick:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:25:56PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>> before i change my policy about using externals in netpd, i would  
>>> like
>>> to ask (probably miller?), if there is a chance, that symbolatom is
>>> changed accordingly in the future?
>>
>> When I asked about spaces in symbols on the pd-dev list Miller's  
>> reply
>> was: "1. spaces in symbols are a parsing/formatting problem, not a  
>> data
>> type problem." So that would indicate that he sees it as a problem  
>> that
>> must be fixed. Be good if someone could submit a nice clean patch to
>> fix the parsing problem and see if he accepts it.
>>
>> Another similar reply to the issue of symbol table saturation was  
>> "2. use
>> arrays as strings as I proposed;" which isn't currently possible  
>> in your
>> use-case because the symbol input box itself won't let you input  
>> spaces
>> to even get them into an array.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
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