[PD] keyword/regexp search of documentation in a plugin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Wow, that's really nice! The dynamic updating with the checkboxes is  
impressive.  More features and better formatting.  My only complaint  
is the "No DESCRIPTION tag." message, I say it'd be better just blank.

There is also a weird thing where I can't grab the scrollbar and move  
it, only scroll with the mousewheel.  This is using Pd-extended 0.43  
from 02-02 on Mac OS X 10.5/Intel.

.hc

On Jan 25, 2011, at 1:03 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> Remixed!
>
> -Jonathan
>
> --- On Thu, 1/13/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] keyword/regexp search of documentation in a plugin
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "pd-list" <PD-list at iem.at>
>> Date: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:00 PM
>> Attached is an updated version:
>>
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>> 1 the results aren't clickable
>>
>> Which platform?  They are for me on Ubuntu/maverick,
>> Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
>>
>>> 2 you can't enter multiple non-contiguous terms
>>
>> Its a regexp really, so it doesn't really do keyword
>> searches.  Ideally, this would use a search engine like
>> xapian, then it could do keyword searches.  I just
>> added code to replace spaces in the searchtext with the
>> regexp code ".*" so that it'll search non-contiguous words,
>> but the first word will always be before the second in
>> search results.
>>
>>> 3 no control over AND vs. OR (or is there?)
>>
>> regexp
>>
>>> 4 doesn't differentiate between tutorial/example
>> patches and object-help
>>> patches (what if I just want to find the object named
>> 'gate'?)
>>
>> Hmm, that wouldn't be too hard to do, I guess it would be a
>> pull down menu of: object, message, comment, array, any.
>>
>>> 5 most of the results don't fit into the window size
>>
>> The window should be resizable.
>>
>>> 6 full text search makes it impossible to get useful
>> results for 'float',
>>> array', 'list', etc.
>>
>> That sounds like fully typed searching, which would be very
>> nice, but much harder to do.  My goal right now is to
>> get a basic search function working.  Hopefully my code
>> is clear enough that others will make their own custom
>> search plugins.  I could see simple search, regexp,
>> search engine, etc.
>>
>>> 7 can't search by inlet, object function, author, etc.
>> (PDDP META tags)
>>
>> Why not?  This works for me: author.*steiner
>>
>>> 8 non-friendly user interface
>>
>> I spruced it up a bit with this latest version.
>>
>>> 9 it doesn't seem to be searching the manual
>>
>> Ah, I'll add .html to the file types it searches.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>>>
>>> I've already got a pd patch that is well on its way to
>> curing 1-8 (posted
>>> screenshots awhile back), but it requires toxy, which
>> seems to have been
>>> removed from pd-ext, and there is currently no
>> (non-buggy) tk 'entry'
>>> object in existence.
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Wed, 1/12/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>>>> Subject: [PD] keyword/regexp search of
>> documentation in a plugin
>>>> To: "pd-list" <PD-list at iem.at>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 7:10 AM
>>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> At the strong urging of Sofy Yuditskaya, I finally
>> wrote up
>>>> a quick
>>>> interface for searching the Pd docs using a
>> keyword or a
>>>> regexp.  Its in
>>>> the form of an 0.43 plugin, so you can just drop
>> it into
>>>> your
>>>> user-folder and you should get a "Search" item on
>> the Help
>>>> menu.
>>>>
>>>> Test it out and let me know how it works for you.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
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>
>
> <search-plugin.tcl>



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