[PD] Browse/Search plugin update

[Jonathan Wilkes]

Here's another update:
http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/searchandbrowseplugin/view

* There are now links to browse doc folder and browse external libs at the top.
These two links should cover all the features of the <ctrl-b> browser other
than keyboard browsing.
* Another speedup.  In the search I'm able to do 255 recursive iterations with
no delay and on the 256th one call the next iteration with [after idle].  I really
don't understand how that remains deterministic but it looks like it does, and
it has the effect of speeding up the average search greatly.  So much so that
you barely even notice the progressbar before it disappears.  But if you click
on a result that opens a pd file it has to finish the search before it opens,
so the progressbar is handy in that situation as an indicator.
* there's still substantial overhead in parsing the description/keywords/etc.
for a result.  Not sure if I can do much to speed that up-- you'll notice if you
do a search that has a lot of results like "a" or "".
* I'm catching badly formed tcl lists and improper regex syntax in the search
text and giving the user a pretty and (hopefully helpful) error message and
link in the text widget instead of shooting a tk error dialog at him/her.  You'll
see it if you search for an open curly bracket, single quote, forward slash, etc.
* This ui is really at the edge of what tcl/tk can do-- I tried to get a bit fancier
in the recursive event loop and got a "Too Many Nested Evolutions" error
from Tk.

Anyway, after writing various hacks to get tooltips and hyperlinks in Tk, I really
hope someone ports Pd to a modern GUI toolkit where you get those things
for free!

-Jonathan



----- Original Message -----
> From: Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com>
> To: me.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com>
> Cc: PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 8:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] Browse/Search plugin update
> 
>G ood 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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