[PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

[Brad Garton]

You might want to look at what we did with rtcmix~ in pd.  On OSX we do use
a tcl editor, and on Windows it's set up to use notepad++

brad


On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:56 AM Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
wrote:

> 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>
> 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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