Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-)
What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the user to enter several lines of code, this goes to a tosymbol to turn into one giant symbol, and then I use a prepend to get a single message that looks like the below
eval-string "(define (hello-world) (post :hello-world))"
The above then comes into my external as two atoms.
If anyone has suggestions for the best way to do that, or knows of externals I might want to use to accomplish the above, that would be lovely.
iain
Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not really suitable for your use case, because it is meant for typing Pd lists and therefore treats several characters specially (e.g. semicolons, colons).
If you want interactive editing, I think you need to make your own Tcl GUI object with a plain text editor. If you're a brave Tcl programmer, you could even add syntax highlighting and auto identation ;-)
For inspiration, you could have a look at the [entry] object of the old "flatgui" library, which is basically a widget for plain text.
Christof
On 27.10.2020 15:18, Iain Duncan wrote:
Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-)
What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the user to enter several lines of code, this goes to a tosymbol to turn into one giant symbol, and then I use a prepend to get a single message that looks like the below
eval-string "(define (hello-world) (post :hello-world))"
The above then comes into my external as two atoms.
If anyone has suggestions for the best way to do that, or knows of externals I might want to use to accomplish the above, that would be lovely.
iain
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Thanks Christof.
What about tosymbol, is there a Pd equivalent for taking a multi-atom message and turning it into a single string? or other good way of doing that?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:40 AM Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com wrote:
Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not really suitable for your use case, because it is meant for typing Pd lists and therefore treats several characters specially (e.g. semicolons, colons).
If you want interactive editing, I think you need to make your own Tcl GUI object with a plain text editor. If you're a brave Tcl programmer, you could even add syntax highlighting and auto identation ;-)
For inspiration, you could have a look at the [entry] object of the old "flatgui" library, which is basically a widget for plain text.
Christof On 27.10.2020 15:18, Iain Duncan wrote:
Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-)
What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the user to enter several lines of code, this goes to a tosymbol to turn into one giant symbol, and then I use a prepend to get a single message that looks like the below
eval-string "(define (hello-world) (post :hello-world))"
The above then comes into my external as two atoms.
If anyone has suggestions for the best way to do that, or knows of externals I might want to use to accomplish the above, that would be lovely.
iain
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Yes, you can certainly turn a list into a single symbol, either with [list fromsymbol] + [list tosymbol], or using externals like zexy's [s2l].
But the actual problem is how you get plain text input in Pd. [text] is certainly *not* suitable for that.
Once you have your own Tcl editor widget, you can easily send the text in any form you want (a single symbol, a list of atoms, a list of bytes, ...)
Christof
On 27.10.2020 15:46, Iain Duncan wrote:
Thanks Christof.
What about tosymbol, is there a Pd equivalent for taking a multi-atom message and turning it into a single string? or other good way of doing that?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:40 AM Christof Ressi <info@christofressi.com mailto:info@christofressi.com> wrote:
Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not really suitable for your use case, because it is meant for typing Pd lists and therefore treats several characters specially (e.g. semicolons, colons). If you want interactive editing, I think you need to make your own Tcl GUI object with a plain text editor. If you're a brave Tcl programmer, you could even add syntax highlighting and auto identation ;-) For inspiration, you could have a look at the [entry] object of the old "flatgui" library, which is basically a widget for plain text. Christof On 27.10.2020 15:18, Iain Duncan wrote:Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-) What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the user to enter several lines of code, this goes to a tosymbol to turn into one giant symbol, and then I use a prepend to get a single message that looks like the below eval-string "(define (hello-world) (post :hello-world))" The above then comes into my external as two atoms. If anyone has suggestions for the best way to do that, or knows of externals I might want to use to accomplish the above, that would be lovely. iain _______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management ->https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list <https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list>_______________________________________________ Pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list <https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list>
You might want to look at what we did with rtcmix~ in pd. On OSX we do use a tcl editor, and on Windows it's set up to use notepad++
brad
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:56 AM Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com wrote:
Yes, you can certainly turn a list into a single symbol, either with [list fromsymbol] + [list tosymbol], or using externals like zexy's [s2l].
But the actual problem is how you get plain text input in Pd. [text] is certainly *not* suitable for that.
Once you have your own Tcl editor widget, you can easily send the text in any form you want (a single symbol, a list of atoms, a list of bytes, ...)
Christof On 27.10.2020 15:46, Iain Duncan wrote:
Thanks Christof.
What about tosymbol, is there a Pd equivalent for taking a multi-atom message and turning it into a single string? or other good way of doing that?
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:40 AM Christof Ressi info@christofressi.com wrote:
Pd has the [text] object for entering text, but I think it is not really suitable for your use case, because it is meant for typing Pd lists and therefore treats several characters specially (e.g. semicolons, colons).
If you want interactive editing, I think you need to make your own Tcl GUI object with a plain text editor. If you're a brave Tcl programmer, you could even add syntax highlighting and auto identation ;-)
For inspiration, you could have a look at the [entry] object of the old "flatgui" library, which is basically a widget for plain text.
Christof On 27.10.2020 15:18, Iain Duncan wrote:
Hi folks, I'm in the design stages of porting my Scheme for Max external to Pd, and have some questions already. :-)
What is the best way to deal with large-ish blocks of text in Pd for sending big text messages to an object? In Max (in case readers know it) I use a textedit object to allow the user to enter several lines of code, this goes to a tosymbol to turn into one giant symbol, and then I use a prepend to get a single message that looks like the below
eval-string "(define (hello-world) (post :hello-world))"
The above then comes into my external as two atoms.
If anyone has suggestions for the best way to do that, or knows of externals I might want to use to accomplish the above, that would be lovely.
iain
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