[PD] Keyboard shortcuts for "nudge", "done editing"

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:43:06AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> wrote:
>> The question with this patch then, is does it work fine on GNU/ 
>> Linux and
>> Windows?
>
> I don't know.  I'm experienced with cross-platform development and I  
> have a
> Windows 7 dev environment available via a Bootcamp partition, so in  
> theory I
> could check.  It seems likely to work, but it has not been  
> verified.  It's a
> PITA to power down OS X and fire up Windows, so I don't do it very  
> often.  No
> X Windows box immediately available, either.
>
> I don't see any unit tests.   Are there any?

There isn't really any unified test method.  I think the zexy library  
has some, and someone else recently starting writing a test framework  
in Lua.  But regular automated unit tests is something that we sorely  
need.

What we do have is a farm of dev/build servers which you can get ssh  
access to.

http://puredata.info/docs/developer/PdLab

.hc

>
>> I really think the whole key handling code in both Tcl and C
>> needs rewriting rather than patching.
>
> I'm not prepared to offer an opinion on that, as I'm not yet  
> sufficiently
> familiar with the code base.
>
> If we were to make such an attempt, I'd suggest preserving the  
> existing
> interface while changing the implementation.  And of course it would  
> seem wise
> to secure the blessing of Mr. Puckette in advance as to the general  
> approach.
>
>> Perhaps matju's answer is the way forward, making it based on the  
>> %K bind
>> var rather the %k.
>
> That seemed logical to me and I attempted to figure it out, but came  
> up short.
> Grepping the source for "%k" didn't turn up anything.  Grepping for  
> "%K"
> turned up the pd_bindings.tcl file, and I hacked from there.
>
>> I added a couple more keys to your origin one:
>
> Nice!
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>



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