You could use [hcs/version], if you don't get a response after a
bang, it's probably not loaded. Currently, that object only exists
in Pd-extended, unless someone compiles it themself, so no response
would mean not pd-extended, and therefore most likely won't have entry.
You might try [tkwidgets/text], it's a much enhanced version of Ben's
[entry]. It has some bugs but I want to find them and fix them now,
so bug reports would be much appreciated.
Also, I plan on making an object out of Tk's entry ([entry] is
actually based on Tk's text). Tk's entry is a one line text widget
meant for data entry.
.hc
On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Max Neupert wrote:
if the situation with the symbolatom doesn't change i'd like to
make a workaround where preferably [entry] is used, but if not
available it will fall back to the symbol atom. is it possible to
detect somehow if entry is loaded sucessfuly?max
Am 11.12.2007 um 04:09 schrieb Chris McCormick:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:25:56PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
before i change my policy about using externals in netpd, i would
like to ask (probably miller?), if there is a chance, that symbolatom is changed accordingly in the future?When I asked about spaces in symbols on the pd-dev list Miller's
reply was: "1. spaces in symbols are a parsing/formatting problem, not a
data type problem." So that would indicate that he sees it as a problem
that must be fixed. Be good if someone could submit a nice clean patch to fix the parsing problem and see if he accepts it.Another similar reply to the issue of symbol table saturation was
"2. use arrays as strings as I proposed;" which isn't currently possible
in your use-case because the symbol input box itself won't let you input
spaces to even get them into an array.Best,
Chris.
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