Ok, I changed the progress bar and replaced the sluggish [lsort -command]. It now responds pretty much instantaneously when you start a search:
http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/searchandbrowseplugin/view
Earlier when I tested on winxp it initially took about 15 seconds to load the search, but then it took around 3 seconds after that (even after re-opening Pd, so I don't think it was caching anything). Haven't tried on OSX yet.
-Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
From: Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@at.or.at To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: PD List pd-list@iem.at Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Browse/Search plugin update
On 10/30/2012 07:20 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
I updated my search plugin by adding a progressbar:
http://puredata.info/Members/jancsika/searchandbrowseplugin/view
It also prints out the number of files it searched. There were some reports of a search taking over a minute, but with GNU/Linux and winxp I'm getting about 3 seconds for a little over 9,000 docs (I think I'm searching two different copies of pd-extended libs so that should be well over what you'd typically be searching). If people are getting long searches please start by telling me how many files you're searching. Also, the progressbar updates don't start until it's built a list of files and sorted it, so if it's
taking a long
time when you search before the progressbar appears then that may be the culprit.
Now that the interface updates live I don't really think there's
much
need to build an index. You can start reading the first results immediately and even scroll the list as it finishes printing the results. (I guess I can also add a "Cancel" button, too.)
Let me know if there are any bugs.
-Jonathan
Looking very good! I consider this something everyone should install now. The progress bar is a good enhancement. I wonder if it could somehow fit in to the GUI elements better somehow. Its fine how it is, but it seems a little out of place.
Looks like there are some debug messages still in it, I get these when hovering:
filename is 5.reference/all_about_arrays.pd basedir is /Applications/Pd-0.43.3-extended-20121008.app/Contents/Resources/doc filename is 5.reference/loop~-help.pd basedir is /Applications/Pd-0.43.3-extended-20121008.app/Contents/Resources/doc filename is 5.reference/all_about_arrays.pd filelist is 7751 filelist is 7751
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