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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:47 PM Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision
Very nice, a big improvement. Its really looking quite complete. Its getting so good that I finally missed that it doesn't have a back button like lots of browserly things these days.
There's probably a way to do that if someone wants to investigate. There's a "dump" subcommand for the text widget, but you'd probably want to cache it on disk since results can be pretty big for, say, a search for "float".
Other issues:
- long searches on OSX. I'm just doing a regex on every file as one big
string (which is faster than foreaching each line). Could be faster with an index but then not even half of all docs have keywords or metadata.
- users can easily trigger tk error messages because I'm using their input
as the regex pattern. Plus, I'm blithely treating the input as if it were a well formed list, and thus I've entered tcl "quoting hell". The benefit is that I get string quoting for free, and I'm quite fine with that vs. the cost of an error with a complex regex pattern.
- external libraries that don't have a *-meta.pd patch won't get listed in the
external libraries list. (Simple fix, though.)
- Pd's chronic lack of user-friendly documentation is even more obvious.
One external library's description is something like "my bag of tricks"! Of course many of the libs are just directories for a particular developer's experimentation, but if you see a description that can be improved let me know and I'll fix it.
-Jonathan
Its definitely ready to be on the puredata.info/downloads page, at the very least.
One minor thing, it seems that the widget frames and the background are slightly different shades of grey (see attachment):
.hc
On Mar 21, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Search plugin revision:
- links to tutorials, manual, and other stuff to guide beginners on the
front page
- tutorial and libdir filebrowser obsoletes the <ctrl-B> HelpBrowser
- folder icon allows to open any directory (or libdir) in external file
browser
- Found an object in the search results you've never seen before?
Click the
info icon to automatically open the readme file from the libdir author! 5) search results in alphabetical order, with internal objects listed first 6) see a hint in the statusbar for all links 7) description/author/license/version automatically listed for every libdir
in the libdir format
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