[PD] Spotlight Importer for Pd OSX

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This sounds super useful!  I'd like to include it in Pd-extended if  
someone can recreate the work.

.hc

On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:35 PM, mark edward grimm wrote:

> Hey Luke,
>
> Too bad you lost it! Happens to the best of us!
>
> Was it this xcode tutorial you used?
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ 
> MDImporters/Concepts/WritingAnImp.html
>
> I will take a look at this because for me this would be extremely  
> useful. Probably will not get a chance to take a look until next  
> week though.
>
> One thing - if indexing plain-text will it index everything in a  
> patch? can it exclude stuff like "#N canvas 540 610 118 149 10;",  
> "#X obj 8 63", "#X obj 10 64", etc. or does it even matter do you  
> think....
>
> Yeah i was looking into this last night and thought "hey someone on  
> the pd list MUST have done this already"... guess i was right!
>
> cheers
> m
>
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 6/10/08, Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Luke Iannini <lukexipd at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Spotlight Importer for Pd OSX
>> To: mgrimm at syr.edu, "pd-liste List" <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 2:20 AM
>> Amusingly I did exactly this, and then forgot to tell
>> anybody about it
>> or upload it anywhere, then I reformatted and lost it :P.
>>
>> It was /extremely/ useful at the time (indexing comments,
>> etc, which I
>> could then take advantage of with impromptu tagging and
>> TODO etc), so
>> I've been planning to do it again.  I just followed a
>> tutorial
>> somewhere; if you do some googling for "spotlight
>> importer" "plain
>> text" "source code" or some combination you
>> should pull it up.
>>
>> I'll do it again if you have any trouble.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Luke
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:37 PM, mark edward grimm
>> <mgrimm at syr.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Has anyone made a Spotlight Importer for PD?  Or is
>> there another way to index all content of PD files for
>> spotlight searches in home folder for example?
>>>
>>> I just want to search a folder where I have many .pd
>> files for content ex. 'bpm' or whatever... for
>> object/expressions/comments in the patch itself.  OSX does
>> not seem to index .pd file content OR am I missing
>> something?
>>>
>>> thanks!
>>> m
>>>
>>>
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