[PD] Browse/Search plugin update

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 1 19:06:59 CET 2012


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> 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: Thursday, November 1, 2012 11:21 AM
>Subject: Re: [PD] Browse/Search plugin update
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>For back/forward buttons, couldn't you just store a reference to each page?  Basically you have two stacks, one for the back and one for the forward.  Each time you click on a link, you add the current page to the back stack.  Each time you click back, you add the current page to the forward stack.  Clicking a new link clears the forward stack.


It'd have to work for the search, too.  So any time someone browses or searches I
keep a reference to where they were browsing or the term they searched for.  Then just add some forward/back
buttons and bind to the arrow keys and the interface is done.

I think this would cause problems.  Users are accustomed to navigation buttons working immediately, and
though I've sped up the search considerably there's still some initial overhead in building the list of files to
search.  That will lead to irregular intervals of latency when users click the "back" a bunch of times in a row
(and users will certainly do that once the feature is there).

Anyway, the search combobox has a history you can display when you click the Down arrow.


-Jonathan


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>>> * there are a number of libraries that show: "version: no AUTHOR tag or 
>>> values" while the author: field is filled out.
>> 
>> Which library?  I'll check it out.
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>A few of them, I just opened up the libraries view and skimmed the list.


Ok, that's fixed:
https://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/searchandbrowseplugin/view

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>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
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>>> .hc
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>>>> -Jonathan
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>>>>> 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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