The auto-completion is fantastic stuff! Especially the drop-down menu addition. Congratulations Yvan, HC & JW.
Is there anyway of modifying the plugin so that instead of using TAB this happens...
- Create new object -> list of objects appear in full (0-9, a-z) but focus
stays in object
- Begin typing -> list of objects reduces as you type
- See the one you want -> arrow key up/down, focus changes to drop-down box
then ENTER to select desired object
Is this something that is possible?
I tend to go on breaks from Pd when real life kicks back in so every time I come back I find myself opening up the help list of all objects to remember what tools I have available to me. So a complete list I would find very helpful, plus I think this would aid beginners a lot too.
Cheers, John.
On 04/14/2011 11:54 AM, JF wrote:
The auto-completion is fantastic stuff! Especially the drop-down menu addition. Congratulations Yvan, HC& JW.
Is there anyway of modifying the plugin so that instead of using TAB this happens...
there is a new version but it's still expermiental (and unreleased). if you wanna test it:
http://github.com/gusano/pd_stuffs
and checkout autocompletion_experimental branch
- Create new object -> list of objects appear in full (0-9, a-z) but focus
stays in object
then it can be a *long* list of objects so I should change the GUI for it (nomore popup menu but a window with scrollbars but then you don't have an easy overview of all completions...). not sure I really want that though :/ maybe this could be a user option ?
- Begin typing -> list of objects reduces as you type
the experimental version does that but there are still some bugs
- See the one you want -> arrow key up/down, focus changes to drop-down box
then ENTER to select desired object
the current version does that
cheers, _y
- Create new object -> list of objects appear in full (0-9, a-z) but
focus
stays in object
then it can be a *long* list of objects so I should change the GUI for it (nomore popup menu but a window with scrollbars but then you don't have an easy
overview of all completions...). not sure I really want that though :/ maybe this could be a user option ?
Yes I can see this annoying a lot of other people but a user option would be fantastic ; )
- Begin typing -> list of objects reduces as you type
the experimental version does that but there are still some bugs
I tried it out and it is awesome and way closer to what feels natural to me!
I'm not sure if I made myself clear in the first post but I was trying to advocate a way in which the drop-down menu could pop-up _without_ pressing TAB? Perhaps it could pop up as soon as you start typing?
Is this possible do you know or maybe even as an option???
Again great work though Yvan! Definitely the best improvement to Pd for me in the past couple of years.
John.
Just saw this new version now. Looks absolutely awesome Yvan. Can't wait to try it out and thanks for including the 'All' mode that I bugged you about - I hope it's of use to more users than just me!
John.
On 05/12/2011 04:32 AM, JF wrote:
Just saw this new version now. Looks absolutely awesome Yvan. Can't wait to try it out and thanks for including the 'All' mode that I bugged you about - I hope it's of use to more users than just me!
well I'm sorry to tell you that this was eventually removed :/ it's already hacky to deal with pd GUI so having this was a bit too much messing with keyboard bindings. OTOH you just have to hit TAB once and type normally to get the same behavior.
latest version has *a lot* of new/cool features, I will announce it here later.
cheers, _y
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