From: yvan volochine <yvan...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] 3 new gui-plugins
To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <h...@at.or.at>
Cc: pd-list@iem.at
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 6:53 PM
On 04/03/2011 06:44 PM,
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:12 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/03/2011 05:57 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:
Wow, I love the tab autocompletion plugin!
What would be amazing if we
had a bash-style completion files were the
arguments were also
tab-completable, when relevant. Things like
filenames, table/array
names, send/receive names, etc. This
completion file could be included
in libraries. It really highlights how badly
we need Enter/Return to
instantiate the object.
Personally I prefer the default
tcsh/bash-style where tab doesn't cycle
thru the options when you hit tab repeatly. I
could see a bash/tcsh
style display of the options, like in a popup
when you hit tab
repeatedly.
hey thanks.
I'm not really supposed to dedicate that ammount
of time developping
for pd but as I'm unemployed right now =)
I'm afraid the bash style auto-completion is a bit
above my head, but
the idea is nice.
Basically, the first is the trigger: hitting tab twice
where the tab
does not add any more characters. So using your plugin
as an example,
type M-O-Tab-Tab would then list 'mod' and 'moses' as
options but not
change the 'mo' in the box. Those options could then
be in a popup menu
to both see and select with the keyboard or mouse.
yeah that's what I wanted first: a ComboBox below the
object box, but
then I had troubles with object box coordinates (did the
user click or
is the object still moving with the cursor, etc...) and I
started adding
some "if" and all kind of stuff inside mouse motion
procedures and that
became nasty.
this (and the fact that I wanted it now =) made me rewrite
the plugin
with the "cycling-through-completions-with-tab" behavior
(which I still
find very cool for speedy-patching)
cheers,
_y
Adding the argument completion would probably be a lot
more work, but I
haven't really thought about it. But just having
object name completion
is huge!
.hc
One thing that needs to happen to make the
auto-complete plugin more
deployable is to have all its procs in its own
namespace. Otherwise
there can easily be name conflicts with other
things named 'init',
'trigger', etc.
done
(FYI: sending to pd-announce also sends to
pd-list)
okay
cheers,
_y
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