[PD] search plugin revision

[m.e.grimm]

this looks really great!

hans ... whats up with the other "Search" under "help". I cant even
type into it let alone search for anything. are we just getting rid of
that and replacing with jonathons?

thanks!
m

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "pd-list at iem.at" <pd-list at iem.at>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision
>>
>>
>> Very nice, a big improvement.  Its really looking quite complete.  Its getting
>> so good that I finally missed that it doesn't have a back button like lots
>> of browserly things these days.
>
> There's probably a way to do that if someone wants to investigate.  There's a
> "dump" subcommand for the text widget, but you'd probably want to cache it
> on disk since results can be pretty big for, say, a search for "float".
>
> Other issues:
> * long searches on OSX.  I'm just doing a regex on every file as one big
> string (which is faster than foreaching each line).  Could be faster with an
> index but then not even half of all docs have keywords or metadata.
> * users can easily trigger tk error messages because I'm using their input
> as the regex pattern.  Plus, I'm blithely treating the input as if it were a well
> formed list, and thus I've entered tcl "quoting hell".  The benefit is that I get
> string quoting for free, and I'm quite fine with that vs. the cost of an error
> with a complex regex pattern.
> * external libraries that don't have a *-meta.pd patch won't get listed in the
> external libraries list.  (Simple fix, though.)
> * Pd's chronic lack of user-friendly documentation is even more obvious.
> One external library's description is something like "my bag of tricks"!
> Of course many of the libs are just directories for a particular developer's
> experimentation, but if you see a description that can be improved let
> me know and I'll fix it.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>>
>> Its definitely ready to be on the puredata.info/downloads page, at the very
>> least.
>>
>> One minor thing, it seems that the widget frames and the background are slightly
>> different shades of grey (see attachment):
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>
>>>  Search plugin revision:
>>>  1) links to tutorials, manual, and other stuff to guide beginners on the
>> front page
>>>  2) tutorial and libdir filebrowser obsoletes the <ctrl-B> HelpBrowser
>>>  3) folder icon allows to open any directory (or libdir) in external file
>> browser
>>>  4) Found an object in the search results you've never seen before?
>> Click the
>>>
>>>  info icon to automatically open the readme file from the libdir author!
>>>  5) search results in alphabetical order, with internal objects listed first
>>>  6) see a hint in the statusbar for all links
>>>  7) description/author/license/version automatically listed for every libdir
>> in the libdir format
>>>
>>>  -Jonathan
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