hi,
is there a way to erase the text from an object box that's being edited (in tcl) ? I tryed with pdtk_sekectall and pdtk_text_set but I couldn't get it to work (pd keeps the 'old' text).
cheers, _y
Can't be done -- the actual text editing is done in Pd and the TCL code is just to display the current state of affairs down in Pd.
There might be a way to do it via messages to Pd though -- for instance, simlulating the necessary mouse/keyboard actions.
cheers Miller
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:49:40PM +0200, yvan volochine wrote:
hi,
is there a way to erase the text from an object box that's being edited (in tcl) ? I tryed with pdtk_sekectall and pdtk_text_set but I couldn't get it to work (pd keeps the 'old' text).
cheers, _y
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On 04/01/2011 10:43 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Can't be done -- the actual text editing is done in Pd and the TCL code is just to display the current state of affairs down in Pd.
There might be a way to do it via messages to Pd though -- for instance, simlulating the necessary mouse/keyboard actions.
ah yes, that works if I simulate a double-click. auto-completion is getting closer =)
cheers, _y
On 04/01/2011 11:29 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/01/2011 10:43 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Can't be done -- the actual text editing is done in Pd and the TCL code is just to display the current state of affairs down in Pd.
There might be a way to do it via messages to Pd though -- for instance, simlulating the necessary mouse/keyboard actions.
ah yes, that works if I simulate a double-click.
it seems that simulating the mouse is a bad idea (focus problems). how would I go to simulate CTRL-A ??
this does not work:
proc ctrl_all {} { ... set key "Control_L" set a 97
pdsend "$mytoplevel key 1 $key 0" pdsend "$mytoplevel key 1 $a 0" pdsend "$mytoplevel key 0 $a 0" pdsend "$mytoplevel key 0 $key 0" }
cheers, _y
On 04/02/2011 05:38 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/01/2011 11:29 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/01/2011 10:43 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Can't be done -- the actual text editing is done in Pd and the TCL code is just to display the current state of affairs down in Pd.
There might be a way to do it via messages to Pd though -- for instance, simlulating the necessary mouse/keyboard actions.
ah yes, that works if I simulate a double-click.
it seems that simulating the mouse is a bad idea (focus problems). how would I go to simulate CTRL-A ??
this does not work:
proc ctrl_all {} { ... set key "Control_L" set a 97
pdsend "$mytoplevel key 1 $key 0"
actually this should be better but it also does not work:
pdsend "$mytoplevel selectall"
in pd, it seems that CTRL-A just "releases" the object.
_y
On Apr 2, 2011, at 11:57 AM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/02/2011 05:38 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/01/2011 11:29 PM, yvan volochine wrote:
On 04/01/2011 10:43 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Can't be done -- the actual text editing is done in Pd and the TCL code is just to display the current state of affairs down in Pd.
There might be a way to do it via messages to Pd though -- for instance, simlulating the necessary mouse/keyboard actions.
ah yes, that works if I simulate a double-click.
it seems that simulating the mouse is a bad idea (focus problems). how would I go to simulate CTRL-A ??
this does not work:
proc ctrl_all {} { ... set key "Control_L" set a 97
pdsend "$mytoplevel key 1 $key 0"
actually this should be better but it also does not work:
pdsend "$mytoplevel selectall"
in pd, it seems that CTRL-A just "releases" the object.
Have you tried watching the actual traffic that pd-gui sends to pd? Run pd from the command line like 'pd -stderr -d 3' and you'll see the communications between pd and pd-gui. -d 1 would be one direction of that traffic, and -d 2 would be the other direction, but I forget which is which.
That way you can figure out which messages are the ones that you want to hijack :)
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On 04/03/2011 01:53 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Have you tried watching the actual traffic that pd-gui sends to pd? Run pd from the command line like 'pd -stderr -d 3' and you'll see the communications between pd and pd-gui. -d 1 would be one direction of that traffic, and -d 2 would be the other direction, but I forget which is which.
That way you can figure out which messages are the ones that you want to hijack :)
thanks for the tip I assumed that CTRL-A would select the text in a box but I was wrong. I found a way by simulating backspace key though.
cheers, _y
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