> Also, the last time I tried Pd on OSX it had two "Preferences" menu items
I remember that one. seems to be gone now.... > files, or make it go away entirely, might be better (easier?) to use available apple help search? a quick look i see mo way to get rid of it. there is a "Help Indexer tool" ... but seems this would be completely different than the plugin... m On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> >> To: m.e.grimm <megr...@gmail.com> >> Cc: Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com>; "pd-list@iem.at" <pd-list@iem.at> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:27 PM >> Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision >> >> >> That other big blue search thing on Mac OS X is the Apple Help search. It >> only >> searches Apple Help. If anyone can figure out how to either make it search >> .pd >> files, or make it go away entirely, that would be great to have. > > Also, the last time I tried Pd on OSX it had two "Preferences" menu items > under the > main Pd application menu. > > -Jonathan > >> >> .hc >> >> On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:50 PM, m.e.grimm wrote: >> >>> this 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? >>> >>> 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 >>> _________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> "Free software means you control what your computer does. 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