On Dec 10, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:34 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Roman Haefeli wrote: >> (or am i >>> overseeing something?). >> >> It would only break externals that rely on lack of spaces in any >> way, and >> only if supposing that you weren't already using some other way of >> producing the spaces. >> >> about spaces, those that break are: [netsend], [print], >> [textfile], ... >> anything using atom_string(). > > ah, yes i am overseeing. thank you for mentioning them. to be added: > labels in iemguis, when saved. > > but these are things that already would break now and it is > possible to > create symbols containing spaces in pd, it's just not as easy as just > using a symbolbox. fact is, that people do it anyway, so why trying to > prevent them? > > i didn't know that [print] would be affected. in what way is it > affected? at least visually it doesn't seem to be. > > i encounter that ' ' is treated in a non-comprehensibly special way, > since other characters such as ';' or ',' are escaped by symbolatom > (or > by pd, i don't know) and can be used, atltough they have a meaning > in pd > as well (like 'space' has). wouldn't it be more consistent, if ' ', > ',' > and ';' would be treated the same way?
A simple fix for allowing spaces is making the label be based on a list rather than a symbol. This is what I am doing tkwidgets. But for the iemguis, I'm not sure it would work since it might break backwards compatibility. .hc > > roman > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http:// > messenger.yahoo.de > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It's a tactic. It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we're going to win that war. We're not going to win the war on terrorism. - retired U.S. Army general, William Odom _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
