Thanks, Hans, once again, I hit just reply instead of reply to all... I did a quick test on the key message, and it appears that some keys are still not allowed. Such things as a double quote ("), a percent sign (%), and left bracket ([) (but it does allow a right bracket), the backslash () and a tilde (~). All of these characters can be typed directly into the [text] widget.
While I know some of the characters are special in PD, some of these things are probably needed to support the full character set that SQL can recognize.
I was hoping that I could use a [text] object as a buffer to create multiple SQL statements that would get sent to the server as a group. I kind of think this would be useful in storing data in a database, in hopes of keeping down the number of things sent to the server at once. I was toying with the idea of adding this to the SQL external itself, but I seem to be running into a problem that I can't troubleshoot, as it doesn't appear to have any rhyme or reason as to why it acts that way.
Thanks for your help,
Mike
On Nov 19, 2007 4:10 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
I cc'ed the list since it's of general interest.
This message is called [append( for lists/atoms and [key( for individual keystrokes (i.e. "space" makes a space char).
.hc
On Nov 19, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
Hans, I was wondering if it would be possible to add some messages that [text] would use to append its buffer? I would think things similar to what a message box already understands, things like 'add', 'add2', 'addsemi', 'addcomma', 'adddollar', and 'adddollarsym'.
Or is there something already in place?
Mike
On Nov 14, 2007 2:32 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner < hans@eds.org> wrote:
On Nov 14, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:
On 11/14/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
Right, not directly. This hopefully will allow people to do things like write SQL queries in [text] or have a chat app that allows all punctuation.
Since each key typed outputs a [key ( messages from the right status outlet, it would be possible to make an object which would let you create messages separated by commas, if you wanted.
I was playing with 'entry' in the 4 extended (one of the nightly build from last week), and I noticed that there was not an indication of there being a second outlet on the right, but it is there.
Fix in CVS>
I also noted that there is no 'help' file for it, but it was there in the 39 extended.
Yeah, the help file problem is thruout 0.40.3-extended builds AFAIK...
Also, is there some way to change the font size? As it is right now the font is really small.
Coming soon... :) (or build tkwidgets from source)
.hc
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