[PD] 3 new gui-plugins

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Sun, 4/3/11, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] 3 new gui-plugins
> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "yvan volochine" <yvan.pd at gmail.com>, pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 11:38 PM
> 
> To get all available objects, you would have to first get
> the list of  
> loaded classes from 'pd',

Is there already a way to do this?

> then traverse the whole search
> path to see  
> the objects that could be loaded.  Its doable.

> 
> .hc
> 
> On Apr 3, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> 
> > Here's a hack to get around the hacky creator names of
> the list  
> > objects
> > (I also added "list", but I'm not sure if you want to
> use aliases.)
> >
> > Is there no way to just get a list of all the creator
> names that are
> > available when Pd loads up?
> >
> > -Jonathan
> >
> >
> > --- On Sun, 4/3/11, yvan volochine <yvan.pd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: yvan volochine <yvan.pd at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PD] 3 new gui-plugins
> >> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>
> >> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> >> Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 6:53 PM
> >> On 04/03/2011 06:44 PM,
> >> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:12 PM, yvan volochine
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 04/03/2011 05:57 PM, Hans-Christoph
> Steiner
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wow, I love the tab autocompletion
> plugin!
> >> What would be amazing if we
> >>>>> had a bash-style completion files were
> the
> >> arguments were also
> >>>>> tab-completable, when relevant. Things
> like
> >> filenames, table/array
> >>>>> names, send/receive names, etc. This
> >> completion file could be included
> >>>>> in libraries. It really highlights how
> badly
> >> we need Enter/Return to
> >>>>> instantiate the object.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Personally I prefer the default
> >> tcsh/bash-style where tab doesn't cycle
> >>>>> thru the options when you hit tab
> repeatly. I
> >> could see a bash/tcsh
> >>>>> style display of the options, like in
> a popup
> >> when you hit tab
> >>>>> repeatedly.
> >>>>
> >>>> hey thanks.
> >>>> I'm not really supposed to dedicate that
> ammount
> >> of time developping
> >>>> for pd but as I'm unemployed right now =)
> >>>> I'm afraid the bash style auto-completion
> is a bit
> >> above my head, but
> >>>> the idea is nice.
> >>>
> >>> Basically, the first is the trigger: hitting
> tab twice
> >> where the tab
> >>> does not add any more characters. So using
> your plugin
> >> as an example,
> >>> type M-O-Tab-Tab would then list 'mod' and
> 'moses' as
> >> options but not
> >>> change the 'mo' in the box. Those options
> could then
> >> be in a popup menu
> >>> to both see and select with the keyboard or
> mouse.
> >>
> >> yeah that's what I wanted first: a ComboBox below
> the
> >> object box, but
> >> then I had troubles with object box coordinates
> (did the
> >> user click or
> >> is the object still moving with the cursor,
> etc...) and I
> >> started adding
> >> some "if" and all kind of stuff inside mouse
> motion
> >> procedures and that
> >> became nasty.
> >> this (and the fact that I wanted it now =) made me
> rewrite
> >> the plugin
> >> with the "cycling-through-completions-with-tab"
> behavior
> >> (which I still
> >> find very cool for speedy-patching)
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> _y
> >>
> >>> Adding the argument completion would probably
> be a lot
> >> more work, but I
> >>> haven't really thought about it. But just
> having
> >> object name completion
> >>> is huge!
> >>>
> >>> .hc
> >>>
> >>>>> One thing that needs to happen to make
> the
> >> auto-complete plugin more
> >>>>> deployable is to have all its procs in
> its own
> >> namespace. Otherwise
> >>>>> there can easily be name conflicts
> with other
> >> things named 'init',
> >>>>> 'trigger', etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> done
> >>>>
> >>>>> (FYI: sending to pd-announce also
> sends to
> >> pd-list)
> >>>>
> >>>> okay
> >>>>
> >>>> cheers,
> >>>> _y
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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