[L2Ork-dev] handling spaces inside labels

[Liam Goodacre]

A non-breaking space is ASCII code 255, copied here between the quotation marks " ". It looks like a regular space but it doesn't break the symbol, hence it can be used in a GUI object's label. In my experience it works well across platforms. You can also generate it by feeding 160 into [list tosymbol].


Leaving labels with spaces out of cross-platform patches is fine, so long as you know what you're doing. But I can imagine a user not knowing this and then getting into trouble with the error message. If it's not changed, perhaps the incompatibility should at least be documented somewhere?


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From: L2Ork-dev <l2ork-dev-bounces at disis.music.vt.edu> on behalf of Ivica Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu>
Sent: 01 December 2016 23:52
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Subject: Re: [L2Ork-dev] handling spaces inside labels


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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