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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

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> --- On Sun, 2/6/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On Feb 6, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> 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.
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> -Jonathan


Its done using classes and the option system.  If you make the  
toplevel of your search like:

     toplevel .font -class DialogWindow

It'll inherit stuff like that.

.hc







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>>> 2) What is the "_" command?  I.e.:
>>> button .b -text [_ "Search"]
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>> It marks text for localization.  So if, for example,
>> you are using Pd
>> in German it'll read "suchen" rather then "search".
>>
>> .hc
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>>>
>>> -Jonathan
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>>> --- On Wed, 1/12/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> wrote:
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>>>> 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
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>>>> 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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