yes that sounds like a really good idea, perhaps if an autocomplete feature fills in as much of the name as it can in the box, then displays the choices in the console, linux style..
adam
--- "B. Bogart" ben@ekran.org wrote:
How about multiple matches getting printed to the PD console? A lot less work to do this, and not losing much functionality to the fancy GUI mode...
Does PD hold the names of all abstractions/objects in a tcl/C array somewhere?
B.
adam armfield wrote:
hi Mathieu
those examples look good, i was thinking of a very direct method, like typing in a linux terminal, so that the rest of the object name would appear in
the
object box being created, or when there are a
number
of options beginning with ff* for instance, then
maybe
an additional max msp type box like shown in your screenshots which highlights a choice/guess immediately, so focus shifts to the "object choice list box" and the choice of object made using the up/down cursor keys....
the linux style tab autocomplete seemed like a
very
elegant way to do this, what i had in mind was
some
kind of method which doesn't even use any extra
boxes,
but completes the rest of the object name (or as
much
of the name as possible before the user has to
choose
the final letters to select the object they want)
all the best adam
another one i've been mulling over is some kind
of
linux style tab
autocomplete feature which guesses the name of
the
object one is
creating when tab is pressed.. maybe could speed
things up a bit
You mean sort of like the following?
http://artengine.ca/matju/impd/gallery/completions.gif
http://artengine.ca/matju/impd/gallery/class_list_3.gif
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