One more thing I forgot to mention, it's too late to include the spotlight importer into this release, but I did make the Makefile create the Library/Spotlight directory, to make it a bit easier to manually install it. Once we set up the 0.41-extended builds, it can be included there.
.hc On Jun 19, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Luke Iannini wrote: > Hi all, > Here's a Spotlight importer for Pd (and AFAIK .pat) files. > > Starting with tonight or tomorrow's autobuild, installing it (just > double-click it) will let Spotlight look inside your Pd patches. > Also, a beneficial side-effect of a necessary change to Pd-extended's > bundle means that Pd-patches are now Quick Look-enabled (don't get > /too/ excited, it is only the plaintext representation, but still > extremely handy). And after the importer itself gets enveloped by > Pd-extended's bundle, it will just work (no installation needed). > > This version just indexes the entire text. In the future I could add > specific metadata keys to correspond to "Pure Data Objects", "Pure > Data Messages", "Pure Data Comments", and "Pure Data [declares]", > which could then be used to construct complex Spotlight queries (but I > just learned enough Obj-C to get this far tonight so give me a while : > ) ). > > Hans, apparently placing it in > Pd-extended.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight will make it magically > start working the first time Pd is dragged out of its .dmg. I don't > have a clue about building this dynamically in the autobuilds, but > since it is a Universal Binary and OS X only is it cool to add > statically? > > enjoy > Luke > > (by the way, you'll know you have the right Pd-extended when running > "mdls -name kMDItemContentType a-patch.pd" gives > "org.puredata.pd-patch" rather than "dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81a3a" or > similar) > <PureData.mdimporter.zip>_____________________________________________ > __ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- "Free software means you control what your computer does. Non-free software means someone else controls that, and to some extent controls you." - Richard M. Stallman _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list