You could use [hcs/version], if you don't get a response after a bang, it's probably not loaded. Currently, that object only exists in Pd-extended, unless someone compiles it themself, so no response would mean not pd-extended, and therefore most likely won't have entry.
You might try [tkwidgets/text], it's a much enhanced version of Ben's [entry]. It has some bugs but I want to find them and fix them now, so bug reports would be much appreciated. Also, I plan on making an object out of Tk's entry ([entry] is actually based on Tk's text). Tk's entry is a one line text widget meant for data entry. .hc On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Max Neupert wrote: > if the situation with the symbolatom doesn't change i'd like to > make a workaround where preferably [entry] is used, but if not > available it will fall back to the symbol atom. is it possible to > detect somehow if entry is loaded sucessfuly? > > max > > Am 11.12.2007 um 04:09 schrieb Chris McCormick: > >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:25:56PM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: >>> before i change my policy about using externals in netpd, i would >>> like >>> to ask (probably miller?), if there is a chance, that symbolatom is >>> changed accordingly in the future? >> >> When I asked about spaces in symbols on the pd-dev list Miller's >> reply >> was: "1. spaces in symbols are a parsing/formatting problem, not a >> data >> type problem." So that would indicate that he sees it as a problem >> that >> must be fixed. Be good if someone could submit a nice clean patch to >> fix the parsing problem and see if he accepts it. >> >> Another similar reply to the issue of symbol table saturation was >> "2. use >> arrays as strings as I proposed;" which isn't currently possible >> in your >> use-case because the symbol input box itself won't let you input >> spaces >> to even get them into an array. >> >> Best, >> >> Chris. >> >> ------------------- >> http://mccormick.cx >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ >> listinfo/pd-list > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is related to the telescope. -Edsger Dykstra _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
