[PD] Browse/Search plugin update

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Good to hear.  I've got a few more changes I'll post a little later.

-Jonathan



----- Original Message -----
> From: me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>; PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Browse/Search plugin update
> 
>>  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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