This is very cool Jonathan you've managed to combine my and my daughter's two favourite things!

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:

On 08/30/2013 09:23 AM, colet.patrice wrote:

Hello,

Is it compiled for windows from last version of pd-vanilla?

No, it's from 0.44.

-Jonathan

Patrice Colet

-------- Message d'origine -------- De : Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com jancsika@yahoo.com Date : 26/08/2013 18:44 (GMT+00:00) A : pd-list@iem.at Objet : Re: [PD] reverse kickstarter update: omgponies

Here are some (rough) demo builds: http://puredata.info/search?SearchableText=pd+with+prefs

Just click on the pd-with-prefs file with your platform name in it.

For GNU/Linux:

1. Locate the main directory that contains "src" "tcl" etc.
2. Run ./pd

OSX: Unzip and click the Pd app

Windows:

1. Locate the main directory
2. Look inside "bin" and click "pd" executable

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To run the demos:

1. on OSX look in the included directory "tests". Other platforms: look

in the main directory: omgponies demo (with sound)- anitest.pd continuous soft music video (with *crappy* wav-- sorry)- csm.pd arrays of celery - celery.pd

What is being demo'd:

• [drawimage] - new, unstable ds object
• [canvasinfo] - has new, unstable method "hitbox" to find objects under

an x/y coord

• [classinfo] - has new, unstable method to find methods

The prefs dialog may be borked on OSX and Windows, so please ignore.

For the [*info] objects, I'll be trying to stabilize the interface in the next few days.

These changes constitute about three days of work. As always, beans and rice appreciated! You can donate here: https://jwilkes.nfshost.com/donations.php

In the next few days I'm going to focus on stabalizing the [*info] interface.

Best, Jonathan

On 08/22/2013 02:10 PM, João Pais wrote:

Is it possible to add an argument to [drawsprite] to load the first X frame of the video ? Then, it will limit the memory used for large videos. ++

or just a portion of the video, in that case.

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Hi list, Attached is a first pass at using the Xapian backend to search Pure Data docs.

What the revision does:

• simplifies building a search index. It builds once, on the first

search, and all subsequent searches happen very fast. Previously it searched the docs themselves every single time and depended on the OS caching the data, resulting in sluggish performance especially on Windows.

• natural language, probabalistic searches. The search terms

in the index were automatically chosen by the engine with no customization, and already the results are decent.

• nearly no input errors. Xapian has its own simple syntax, but

for most cases users can ignore it and type in natural language searches (like Google). And the few errors the user can generate have meaningful feedback to the console. Also, since I'm passing the input as a string you don't have to worry about malformed tcl lists or weird characters that previously caused error.

• everything, including pd files, pdfs and html, is indexed properly

and so will get included in the results in the proper place.

• gives the ability to add results from a remote database with a

couple lines of code.

• allows the removal of "Match all terms" and "Match whole words"

checkbuttons, simplifying the interface.

• performs "stemming" out of the box-- that is, searching for

"edit", the engine will take into account "editing", "edits", "edited", etc.

Installation for linux (Debian):

1. Make sure you have libxapian and tclxapian packages

installed. Other distros probably have corresponding packages. 2) put search-plugin.tcl in the /startup directory, or if you're using Pd vanilla just make sure it's in a directory that's specified in the "Path" dialog. 3) Run Pd and click <ctrl-h> or choose "Search" from the "Help" menu.

Further work that needs to be done:

• need to figure out where to create the database directory on

Linux, OSX, and Windows. The directory needs to be read/writable. Is there an easy way to do this?

• need a "Cancel" button next to the progressbar when indexing,

so the user can cancel a long index.

Further work that could be done:

• add pd meta tag/values to the index terms for each document.

This would make it possible to type keyword:foo or author:bar to search based solely on that pd meta tag/value.

• add filenames to terms
• add "object" terms so the user can search pd patches for

a particular object instance, i.e., object:clip

• limit the document data in the database to pd meta tags/values

and other metadata. Right now I'm storing the _entire_ doc text in the database which obviously wastes space.

• xapian has all kinds of features, like suggesting related searches,

and realtime results. The latter could be very handy for autocompletion in object boxes, for example.

• could use the title of html files as description for better result

descriptions

• could plug in to puredata.info to search for externals, plugins, etc.

As always, feedback welcome. And feel free to donate some rice and beans if you can! https://jwilkes.nfshost.com/donations.php

Best, Jonathan