[PD] Canvas questions

[Christof Ressi]

3) you *can* use literal semicolons and commas with [text], but they have to be escaped with backslashes, e.g.: "foo\, bar". 
note, however, that it will confuse the Tcl parser when using such a string as a canvas label, like in 1). you can substitute them with similar looking codepoints http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/confusables.jsp :-)

Christof

> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2019 um 17:53 Uhr
> Von: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> An: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] Canvas questions
>
> On 20.02.19 17:39, Laure M. Hiendl wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I would like to use Pd's canvas for simple, timed text projection in a
> > piece, and I have a couple of questions:
> > 
> > 1. I'm getting the projected text from a .txt file via the [text get]
> > object and [zexy/list2symbol] to then [label $1( the canvas. It's
> > working very fine but when I try to open the properties menu of the
> > canvas I get this error message:
> > 
> > (Tcl) UNHANDLED ERROR: wrong # args: should be "pdtk_iemgui_dialog
> > mytoplevel mainheader dim_header wdt min_wdt wdt_label hgt min_hgt
> > hgt_label rng_header min_rng min_rng_label max_rng max_rng_label
> > rng_sched lin0_log1 lilo0_label lilo1_label loadbang steady num_label
> > num snd rcv gui_name gn_dx gn_dy gn_f gn_fs bcol fcol lcol"
> >     while executing
> > "pdtk_iemgui_dialog .gfxstub100311e20 |cnv|
> > ------selectable_dimensions(pix):------ 15 1 size: 0.0 0.0 empty
> >       ------visible_rect..."
> >     ("uplevel" body line 1)
> >     invoked from within
> > "uplevel #0 $docmds"
> > 
> > I can open the properties menu of a new canvas, but as soon as I label
> > it with another long string I get the same error message. I can edit
> > all the canvas properties just fine with messages, so for me it's not
> > a critical issue. I was just wondering whether I should worry about
> > the stability of my patch.
> 
> no need to worry.
> the problem is, that the iemguis don't properly escape spaces in the
> labels, and tcl gets confused.
> if you need edit the properties (without messages that is), you need to
> first set the label to some string without spaces.
> (alternatively you could use a non-breaking-space (" ") which looks the
> same as a space but isn't one and therefore doesn't confuse the tcl parser.
> 
> but of course this is a bug and ought to be fixed.
> 
> > 
> > 2. To center align the projected text I'm repositioning the canvas
> > label according to the character count of the string. I've added the
> > char count manually for each line in the .txt file, but I was
> > wondering if there's a way to get the char count of a line
> > automatically…
> 
> [list fromsymbol]
> |
> [list length]
> 
> but that will actually count bytes rather than characters. the numbers
> are the same as long as you are using ASCII; as soon as you don't the
> numbers will differ. there used to be a UTF8-to-unicode patch around
> somewhere¹ that would convert utf8 bytelists (as output by [list
> fromsymbol] into unicode codepoint lists (one codepoint per character;
> unless you are into diacritics), that would help here.
> that's probably overkill for your problem at hand though...
> 
> > 
> > 3. How can I get commas "," and semicolons ";" through the [text] object?
> > 
> 
> you don't.
> 
> fgmasdr
> IOhannes
> 
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