Re: [PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

2020-10-27 Thread Brad Garton
You might want to look at what we did with rtcmix~ in pd. On OSX we do use a tcl editor, and on Windows it's set up to use notepad++ brad On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:56 AM Christof Ressi wrote: > Yes, you can certainly turn a list into a single symbol, either with [list > fromsymbol] + [list to

Re: [PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

2020-10-27 Thread Christof Ressi
Yes, you can certainly turn a list into a single symbol, either with [list fromsymbol] + [list tosymbol], or using externals like zexy's [s2l]. But the actual problem is how you get plain text input in Pd. [text] is certainly *not* suitable for that. Once you have your own Tcl editor widget,

Re: [PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

2020-10-27 Thread Iain Duncan
Thanks Christof. What about tosymbol, is there a Pd equivalent for taking a multi-atom message and turning it into a single string? or other good way of doing that? On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:40 AM Christof Ressi wrote: > Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not really

Re: [PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

2020-10-27 Thread Christof Ressi
Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not really suitable for your use case, because it is meant for typing Pd lists and therefore treats several characters specially (e.g. semicolons, colons). If you want interactive editing, I think you need to make your own Tcl GUI o

[PD] Dealing with blocks of text in Pd

2020-10-27 Thread Iain Duncan
Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-) What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the us