2009/9/22 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>

On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:45 PM, András Murányi wrote:

2009/9/17 Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at>

On Sep 16, 2009, at 7:46 PM, András Murányi wrote:

BTW, I have a dream which is that the console is tabbed, and the default tab displays system messages, while for each [print PREFIX] a new tab is opened. That way messages get separated by PREFIX. It's just a silly dream, forget it ;op

Tabs in the Pd window would be very nice indeed.  Someone just needs to code it. :-D
.hc

I made up the tabs, but I don't want to brute-regex every message so I need to catch where [print] generates user-made messages.

OK... It seems it is well buried in the C side. If I'm right, user
messages are composed by print_anything() in x_interface.c which gives
post() a single string which calls dopost() which finally calls
pdtk_post in pdwindows.tcl.
I see no much chance to supply additional information to the tcl side, do you?

Great start!  Tcl's a bit weird, but you can do a lot with a few lines of code.

Sounds like you got it right.  I think you'll have to brute regex it in pdtk_post for this idea to work.  But since its a plugin, I think its ok if its a bit heavy since it can be easily disabled.

I think the easiest thing to do here would be to create your own ::pdwindow::pdtk_post and then use the 'rename' command to swap yours in for the standard one.

Hello HC,

i'm assembling regex for filtering out system messages and i have a problem, which is that $::pd_path and $::startup_libraries are empty on startup, they only get loaded when path or startup is modified. Can you help this from the C side?

I was actually planning a little hack for this release, then it can be changed later to something better.  But this weekend, I plan on making it so that the GUI requests the path and startup panels so that it gets the info, but it doesn't show the dialog panels the first time.

sounds perfect!
In the meantime, you could assign me small jobs on the tcl side, if any. I could for example take a look if the popup menu can be built in a way that behaves better with compiz..?