----- Original Message ----- > From: m.e.grimm <megr...@gmail.com> > To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> > Cc: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at>; "pd-list@iem.at" <pd-list@iem.at> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:50 PM > Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision > >t his looks really great! > > hans ... whats up with the other "Search" under "help". I > cant even > type into it let alone search for anything. are we just getting rid of > that and replacing with jonathons?
I'm assuming you are on OSX because they have a standard search window under "Help". Is there some way to hook into it? -Jonathan > > thanks! > m > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >>> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> >>> To: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> >>> Cc: "pd-list@iem.at" <pd-list@iem.at> >>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:47 PM >>> Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision >>> >>> >>> Very nice, a big improvement. Its really looking quite complete. Its > getting >>> so good that I finally missed that it doesn't have a back button > like lots >>> of browserly things these days. >> >> There's probably a way to do that if someone wants to investigate. > There's a >> "dump" subcommand for the text widget, but you'd probably > want to cache it >> on disk since results can be pretty big for, say, a search for > "float". >> >> Other issues: >> * long searches on OSX. I'm just doing a regex on every file as one > big >> string (which is faster than foreaching each line). Could be faster with > an >> index but then not even half of all docs have keywords or metadata. >> * users can easily trigger tk error messages because I'm using their > input >> as the regex pattern. Plus, I'm blithely treating the input as if it > were a well >> formed list, and thus I've entered tcl "quoting hell". The > benefit is that I get >> string quoting for free, and I'm quite fine with that vs. the cost of > an error >> with a complex regex pattern. >> * external libraries that don't have a *-meta.pd patch won't get > listed in the >> external libraries list. (Simple fix, though.) >> * Pd's chronic lack of user-friendly documentation is even more > obvious. >> One external library's description is something like "my bag of > tricks"! >> Of course many of the libs are just directories for a particular > developer's >> experimentation, but if you see a description that can be improved let >> me know and I'll fix it. >> >> -Jonathan >> >>> >>> Its definitely ready to be on the puredata.info/downloads page, at the > very >>> least. >>> >>> One minor thing, it seems that the widget frames and the background are > slightly >>> different shades of grey (see attachment): >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> .hc >>> >>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: >>> >>>> Search plugin revision: >>>> 1) links to tutorials, manual, and other stuff to guide beginners > on the >>> front page >>>> 2) tutorial and libdir filebrowser obsoletes the <ctrl-B> > HelpBrowser >>>> 3) folder icon allows to open any directory (or libdir) in > external file >>> browser >>>> 4) Found an object in the search results you've never seen > before? >>> Click the >>>> >>>> info icon to automatically open the readme file from the libdir > author! >>>> 5) search results in alphabetical order, with internal objects > listed first >>>> 6) see a hint in the statusbar for all links >>>> 7) description/author/license/version automatically listed for > every libdir >>> in the libdir format >>>> >>>> -Jonathan >>>> > <search-plugin.tcl>_______________________________________________ >>>> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list >>>> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >>> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >>> >>> >>> >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three > meals a >>> day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and > dignity, >>> equality and freedom for their spirits. - Martin Luther King, Jr. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pd-list@iem.at mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > -- > ____________________ > m.e.grimm | m.f.a | ed.m. > megr...@gmail.com > _________________________________ > _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list