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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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-l...@lists.iem.at mailing >> list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >> > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list >
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