[PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

[Christof Ressi]

Yes, you can certainly turn a list into a single symbol, either with 
[list fromsymbol] + [list tosymbol], or using externals like zexy's [s2l].

But the actual problem is how you get plain text input in Pd. [text] is 
certainly *not* suitable for that.

Once you have your own Tcl editor widget, you can easily send the text 
in any form you want (a single symbol, a list of atoms, a list of bytes, 
...)

Christof

On 27.10.2020 15:46, Iain Duncan wrote:
> Thanks Christof.
>
> What about tosymbol, is there a Pd equivalent for taking a multi-atom 
> message and turning it into a single string? or other good way of 
> doing that?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:40 AM Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com 
> <mailto:info at christofressi.com>> wrote:
>
>     Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not
>     really suitable for your use case, because it is meant for typing
>     Pd lists and therefore treats several characters specially (e.g.
>     semicolons, colons).
>
>     If you want interactive editing, I think you need to make your own
>     Tcl GUI object with a plain text editor. If you're a brave Tcl
>     programmer, you could even add syntax highlighting and auto
>     identation ;-)
>
>     For inspiration, you could have a look at the [entry] object of
>     the old "flatgui" library, which is basically a widget for plain text.
>
>     Christof
>
>     On 27.10.2020 15:18, Iain Duncan wrote:
>>     Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max
>>     external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-)
>>
>>     What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd
>>     for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case
>>     readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the user to
>>     enter several lines of code, this goes to a tosymbol to turn into
>>     one giant symbol, and then I use a prepend to get a single
>>     message that looks like the below
>>
>>     eval-string "(define (hello-world) (post :hello-world))"
>>
>>     The above then comes into my external as two atoms.
>>
>>     If anyone has suggestions for the best way to do that, or knows
>>     of externals I might want to use to accomplish the above, that
>>     would be lovely.
>>
>>     iain
>>
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