[PD] Patching in fragments

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jan 8, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

> Cool.  When I use the keyboard shortcut "o", something seems different 
> about [osc~] but I can't quite put my finger on it (see attached) :)
> 
> Is there a way for the Tcl plugin to tell pd to use the key bindings only 
> in editmode,

yup, use ::editmode($::focused_window) to get the editmode of the window that has focus.

> and only when there isn't an active cursor in an object or 
> message box?

Hopefuilly possible, but haven't looked into it.

> Also, can the Tcl plugin do things like dangle the object 
> from the mouse pointer (without using the mouse message hack)

Yes, should be possible, just check the code that Put -> Object uses to do it.

> and remove 
> the object (without the cut message hack)?

I don't know the cut message hack.

.hc

> 
> The behavior I'm after is this:
> 1) click the shortcut key and the object fragment dangles from the 
> mouse(or it gets put on the canvas and is selected).
> 2) if the same key is pressed again, that object is removed and the next 
> object fragment associated with that key dangles from the mouse (or gets 
> put on the canvas, selected).
> 3) if a different shortcut key is pressed, the fragment gets put on the 
> canvas (unselected) and the new fragment dangles from the mouse.
> 
> I can get that behavior in my abstraction, but it messes with the 
> clipboard data, plus it's dangerous because if you have part of your 
> patch selected and you hit a shortcut key that part of the patch is lost 
> (and you can't undo it!).
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> --- On Fri, 1/8/10, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:
> 
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> Subject: Re: [PD] Patching in fragments
>> To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "PD List" <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 6:48 AM
>> 
>> Looks promising.  Here is another approach as an 0.43
>> Tcl plugin.  I couldn't figure out how to do
>> connections, but I didn't try very hard.  Drop this
>> file in the "pd/startup" folder of 0.43, or in the path.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> .hc
>> 
>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> 
>>> Here's a remix of a patch by Luke Iannini to get it to
>> do something I've
>>> been wanting to try: shortcut keys for scrolling
>> through a list of
>>> patch fragments.
>>> 
>>> I'm just using the cut, paste, and mouse msg hacks so
>> it works in
>>> pd-vanilla.  But it would be cool to see
>> something like this as a more
>>> general feature in pd.
>>> 
>>> If you wanna play with it just open test.pd and read
>> the comments.
>>> 
>>> -Jonathan
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
> <test.PNG>



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