[L2Ork-dev] handling spaces inside labels

Ivica Ico Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Thu Dec 1 23:52:56 UTC 2016


Forgot to ask, what do you mean by non-breaking space?


Best,


Ico


On 12/1/2016 6:09 AM, Liam Goodacre wrote:
>
> Hey guys
>
>
> In Vanilla, spaces are rudely replaced with underscores inside the 
> labels for canvas and other GUI objects. It looks like you've figured 
> out a more elegant solution with L2Ork, where the spaces get a 
> backslash in the .pd file and hence are allowed to pass into the patch.
>
>
> This is great, but it's creating a small conflict with other 
> distributions, as you get  a Tcl error if you try to draw the 
> properties menu for the given object in Vanilla. I'm attaching a small 
> patch for demonstration. Under certain circumstances, the conflict 
> also seems to prevent other of the object's properties from loading. I 
> discovered the problem like this, although I have been unable to 
> reproduce it since then, so I don't know what the conditions are.
>
>
> I will offer that the non breaking space could be used to solve this 
> problem. It simulates a space inside a label and works in Vanilla 
> patches without any problem.
>
>
> For reference, I'm on L2Ork 20160530 and Vanilla 0.47.
>
>
> Liam
>
>
>
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