[PD] emojis in Pd?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

yeah, I thought it wouldn't look consistent in other platforms, so not the
best thing for making cross platform patches

Em sex., 10 de jul. de 2020 às 18:25, Kylee Kennedy <kmkennedy at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Fun!
> The look is more uniform with pd gui on my Windows 10 pc.
>
> Kylee
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:07 PM Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> screenshot of the patch I sent.
>>
>>
>> [image: Screen Shot 2020-07-10 at 18.04.38.png]
>>
>> Em sex., 10 de jul. de 2020 às 18:00, Alexandre Torres Porres <
>> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi, this discussion came up in the facebook group. I was asking people
>>> that use other alphabets how they work with it and how Pd handles it.
>>> Mostly cause I'm working on cyclone/comment and then people asked me if it
>>> could support emojis too.
>>>
>>> My understanding is that cyclone's comment can do anything, so we tested
>>> a bit and saw that Pd Vanilla can actually support some emojis, but not
>>> all.
>>>
>>> Now, not that I'm particularly interested in this feature and would like
>>> it to be natively supported in Pd (though yeah, lots of facebook people
>>> were excited about it), nonetheless, I have lots of questions and would
>>> like to better understand this. Perhaps if not natively in Pd Vanilla
>>> itself, one could think about providing an external that fully handles it?
>>> But how?
>>>
>>> Or maybe, since something is already happening (some emojis work, others
>>> don't), we could look why it happens, and maybe open a door for full
>>> support. And you know, macOS gives the option of emojis as part of the edit
>>> menu of Pd! Not sure how windows and linux deal with it...
>>>
>>> Now, why bother with emojis? I know... seems silly... but other than
>>> smiley faces, piles of poo and vomiting, there are some icons that can be
>>> useful, like ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️!!!! These, by the way, are icons that I got
>>> working in Pd vanilla on my macOS. And there are also others like math
>>> symbols (≥ works too, that's nice!), stuff like arrows ("➜" works too!
>>> Seems useful). I couldn't get smiley faces in the patch though 😣
>>>
>>> By the way, here's a test patch, see if it works for you (also attached)
>>>
>>> ==============================
>>>
>>> #N canvas 176 60 1325 741 36;
>>> #X msg 336 52 set ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️, f 22;
>>> #X obj 336 134 cyclone/comment 0 80 dejavu\ sans\ mono empty 0 255
>>> 0 0 0 255 0 255 1 0 ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️;
>>> #X text 95 133 cyclone's comment =>, f 10;
>>> #X text 287 304 pd's comment => ⏸⏯⏹⏺⏭⏮⏩⏪⏫⏬◀️
>>> ;
>>> #X msg 822 431 label ⏯, f 10;
>>> #X obj 823 519 s cnv;
>>> #X obj 630 412 bng 95 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
>>> -1 -1;
>>> #X obj 630 412 cnv 15 95 95 empty cnv ⏯ 3 54 0 90 -233017 -66577
>>> 0;
>>> #X obj 630 535 bng 95 250 50 0 empty empty empty 17 7 0 10 -262144
>>> -1 -1;
>>> #X obj 213 460 send ⏯, f 7;
>>> #X obj 209 521 receive ⏯, f 10;
>>> #X floatatom 219 399 5 0 0 0 - - -;
>>> #X floatatom 231 591 5 0 0 0 - - -;
>>> #X text 490 431 [cnv]:;
>>> #X connect 0 0 1 0;
>>> #X connect 4 0 5 0;
>>> #X connect 6 0 8 0;
>>> #X connect 10 0 12 0;
>>> #X connect 11 0 9 0;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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