[PD] Browse/Search plugin update

[Jonathan Wilkes]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Browse/Search plugin update
> 
> 
> On 10/30/2012 07:20 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>>  I updated my search plugin by adding a progressbar:
>> 
>>  http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/searchandbrowseplugin/view
>> 
>>  It also prints out the number of files it searched.  There were some
>>  reports of a search taking over a minute, but with GNU/Linux and
>>  winxp I'm getting about 3 seconds for a little over 9,000 docs (I
>>  think I'm searching two different copies of pd-extended libs so
>>  that should be well over what you'd typically be searching).  If
>>  people are getting long searches please start by telling me how
>>  many files you're searching.  Also, the progressbar updates don't
>>  start until it's built a list of files and sorted it, so if it's 
> taking a long
>>  time when you search before the progressbar appears then that
>>  may be the culprit.
>> 
>>  Now that the interface updates live I don't really think there's 
> much
>>  need to build an index.  You can start reading the first results
>>  immediately and even scroll the list as it finishes printing the results.
>>  (I guess I can also add a "Cancel" button, too.)
>> 
>>  Let me know if there are any bugs.
>> 
>>  -Jonathan
> 
> Looking very good!  I consider this something everyone should install now.  The 
> progress bar is a good enhancement.  I wonder if it could somehow fit in to the 
> GUI elements better somehow.  Its fine how it is, but it seems a little out of 
> place.

After trying it out on winxp it seemed obvious that progress bars like that are
generally transient.  Now it fills up, disappears and gets replaced by the text
telling the number of results.

I also found out that the lsort -command flag is causing the delay before the
progress bar starts.  There's a workaround on the tcl wiki.  I'll post the update
once I get it working.

> 
> Looks like there are some debug messages still in it, I get these when hovering:
> 
> filename is 5.reference/all_about_arrays.pd
> basedir is /Applications/Pd-0.43.3-extended-20121008.app/Contents/Resources/doc
> filename is 5.reference/loop~-help.pd
> basedir is /Applications/Pd-0.43.3-extended-20121008.app/Contents/Resources/doc
> filename is 5.reference/all_about_arrays.pd
> filelist is 7751
> filelist is 7751

Ah yes, forgot about those.  Thanks.

-Jonathan

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