On 04/03/2011 06:44 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:12 PM, yvan volochine wrote:

On 04/03/2011 05:57 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Wow, I love the tab autocompletion plugin! What would be amazing if we
had a bash-style completion files were the arguments were also
tab-completable, when relevant. Things like filenames, table/array
names, send/receive names, etc. This completion file could be included
in libraries. It really highlights how badly we need Enter/Return to
instantiate the object.

Personally I prefer the default tcsh/bash-style where tab doesn't cycle
thru the options when you hit tab repeatly. I could see a bash/tcsh
style display of the options, like in a popup when you hit tab
repeatedly.

hey thanks.
I'm not really supposed to dedicate that ammount of time developping
for pd but as I'm unemployed right now =)
I'm afraid the bash style auto-completion is a bit above my head, but
the idea is nice.

Basically, the first is the trigger: hitting tab twice where the tab
does not add any more characters. So using your plugin as an example,
type M-O-Tab-Tab would then list 'mod' and 'moses' as options but not
change the 'mo' in the box. Those options could then be in a popup menu
to both see and select with the keyboard or mouse.

yeah that's what I wanted first: a ComboBox below the object box, but then I had troubles with object box coordinates (did the user click or is the object still moving with the cursor, etc...) and I started adding some "if" and all kind of stuff inside mouse motion procedures and that became nasty.
this (and the fact that I wanted it now =) made me rewrite the plugin with the "cycling-through-completions-with-tab" behavior (which I still find very cool for speedy-patching)

cheers,
_y

Adding the argument completion would probably be a lot more work, but I
haven't really thought about it. But just having object name completion
is huge!

.hc

One thing that needs to happen to make the auto-complete plugin more
deployable is to have all its procs in its own namespace. Otherwise
there can easily be name conflicts with other things named 'init',
'trigger', etc.

done

(FYI: sending to pd-announce also sends to pd-list)

okay

cheers,
_y

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