Hi frank:
Thanks for your reply. Ok, I got it now. Once the elements are sent, there is no way to delete from the editor, right?
Is there any special tricks that one can do with the editor? Like fast batch change or something. I guess what I am asking is that is there a special purpose for the editor to be there? I have been using Pd for 6 months now and have just found this thing, I would like to know if I am missing something important.
Cheers
CHUN
I was looking for some documentation on the text editor (ctrl+t) in pd, but could not seems to find it on the net. Could anyone point me to the right place? I would like to know how to use it.
The Ctl-T-Editor is simply a way to get a bigger and better editor for Pd elements. If you create an object with "Put something" or edit an existing object, then pressing Ctl-T will bring up an editor window to edit the object's content, if the Edit cursor is inside this object.
"Send" then will immediatly send your changes to the object (or message,...) but keep the editor window open, while "Okay" will send the changes and close the editor window.
Pressing "Send" and then "Okay" will insert your changes twice, btw and pressing "Send" several times will insert your changes several times, too. This can be annoying. If you want to close the editor without sending again, just use the Window close button. Now that I think about it: a "Cancel" or "Discard changes" button would be nice to add.
On my Linux box, copying and pasting text from the X clipboard into a Pd object only works when using the editor window, so that's what I normally use it for.
I found, that trying to edit larger messages (I tried to add 128 lines once) might result in shortened messages, though, so always check for correctness.
That's all I know about the Text Editor.
chun lee wrote:
Hi frank:
Thanks for your reply. Ok, I got it now. Once the elements are sent, there is no way to delete from the editor, right?
Is there any special tricks that one can do with the editor?
cut/copy/paste of text works in the editor, which is pretty much the only reason i use it... especially when using complex [expr]'s
Like fast batch change or something. I guess what I am asking is that is there a special purpose for the editor to be there? I have been using Pd for 6 months now and have just found this thing, I would like to know if I am missing something important.
Cheers
CHUN
I was looking for some documentation on the text editor (ctrl+t) in pd, but could not seems to find it on the net. Could anyone point me to the right place? I would like to know how to use it.
The Ctl-T-Editor is simply a way to get a bigger and better editor for Pd elements. If you create an object with "Put something" or edit an existing object, then pressing Ctl-T will bring up an editor window to edit the object's content, if the Edit cursor is inside this object.
"Send" then will immediatly send your changes to the object (or message,...) but keep the editor window open, while "Okay" will send the changes and close the editor window.
Pressing "Send" and then "Okay" will insert your changes twice, btw and pressing "Send" several times will insert your changes several times, too. This can be annoying. If you want to close the editor without sending again, just use the Window close button. Now that I think about it: a "Cancel" or "Discard changes" button would be nice to add.
On my Linux box, copying and pasting text from the X clipboard into a Pd object only works when using the editor window, so that's what I normally use it for.
I found, that trying to edit larger messages (I tried to add 128 lines once) might result in shortened messages, though, so always check for correctness.
That's all I know about the Text Editor.
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Hallo, chun lee hat gesagt: // chun lee wrote:
Thanks for your reply. Ok, I got it now. Once the elements are sent, there is no way to delete from the editor, right?
It doesn't seem so. I also learned this stuff by trial and error.
Is there any special tricks that one can do with the editor? Like fast batch change or something. I guess what I am asking is that is there a special purpose for the editor to be there? I have been using Pd for 6 months now and have just found this thing, I would like to know if I am missing something important.
I wrote everything, I know, I don't think there's much more to it. It's not Emacs or Vim. ;)
Ciao
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