[PD] Browse/Search plugin update

me.grimm megrimm at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 23:25:20 CET 2012


> was caching anything).  Haven't
> tried on OSX yet

Works quite swell here on 10.7
Thanks!!!
M

On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:12 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, I changed the progress bar and replaced the sluggish
> [lsort -command].  It now responds pretty much instantaneously
> when you start a search:
> 
> http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/searchandbrowseplugin/view
> 
> 
> Earlier when I tested on winxp it initially took about 15 seconds to
> load the search, but then it took around 3 seconds after that (even
> after re-opening Pd, so I don't think it was caching anything).  Haven't
> tried on OSX yet.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> ----- 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.
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> .hc
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