FYI: I have shifted development to the tkwidgets version currnetly called [text].  I've stopped working on the original [entry].  tkwidgets should be built and included in tomorrow's nightly build, or you can build from source in 'externals/tkwidgets'.

[key %( and [key ~( are working for me, but the others are not.  I'll see about implementing the symbolic names for everything (i.e. "rightbracket", "doublequote", etc.).

I am definitely interested supporting your idea of constructing SQL statements in [text], so let me know what works and what doesn't.  I think there will be some wierdness inevitably since it'll have to work around Pd type system for things like backslash.

.hc


On Nov 19, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Mike McGonagle wrote:

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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