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

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 6 23:54:44 CET 2011



--- On Sun, 2/6/11, 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: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 11:24 PM
> 
> On Feb 6, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> > Hi Hans,
> >     Two questions:
> > 1) widgets and text appear super tiny on winxp. 
> But when I create a
> > widget in the tcl shell, say, with "grid [button .b
> -text Hello]" the
> > font size looks fine.  So what exactly is
> happening in Pd to make  
> > things
> > look too small in windows?  (I remember this was
> a problem with the
> > font bomb but I don't know what the solution was.)
> 
> In order to make the patches all look/work the same on all
> platforms,  
> Tk scaling is turned off.  On Windows, this can mean
> small fonts, so  
> you have to use the scaled fonts that are speced in
> pd-gui.tcl.

How do I specify them?  I don't see them specified at all in 
the code for the "find" dialog but the fonts look fine there.

-Jonathan


> 
> > 2) What is the "_" command?  I.e.:
> > button .b -text [_ "Search"]
> 
> It marks text for localization.  So if, for example,
> you are using Pd  
> in German it'll read "suchen" rather then "search".
> 
> .hc
> 
> >
> > -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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