Also, the last time I tried Pd on OSX it had two "Preferences" menu items
I remember that one. seems to be gone now....
files, or make it go away entirely,
might be better (easier?) to use available apple help search? a quick look i see mo way to get rid of it. there is a "Help Indexer tool" ... but seems this would be completely different than the plugin...
m
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:
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From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: m.e.grimm megrimm@gmail.com Cc: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com; "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:27 PM Subject: Re: [PD] search plugin revision
That other big blue search thing on Mac OS X is the Apple Help search. It only searches Apple Help. If anyone can figure out how to either make it search .pd files, or make it go away entirely, that would be great to have.
Also, the last time I tried Pd on OSX it had two "Preferences" menu items under the main Pd application menu.
-Jonathan
.hc
On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:50 PM, m.e.grimm wrote:
this looks really great!
hans ... whats up with the other "Search" under "help".
I cant even
type into it let alone search for anything. are we just getting rid of that and replacing with jonathons?
thanks! m
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com
wrote:
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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: 1) links to tutorials, manual, and other stuff to guide
beginners on the
front page
2) tutorial and libdir filebrowser obsoletes the
<ctrl-B> HelpBrowser
3) folder icon allows to open any directory (or libdir) in
external file
browser
4) 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
-Jonathan
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