[L2Ork-dev] purr-data console

[Jonathan Wilkes]

> On Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 4:15:35 PM EDT, Gilberto Agostinho <gilbertohasnofb at googlemail.com> wrote:


> Hi all,

> I am not sure if this is the correct place for feature requests for 
> Purr-Data, so my apologies if I am doing this wrong. I have been using 
> Purr-Data for quite some time and this is an extraordinary effort, thank 
> you so much for developing this software. The features that I would like 
> to ask you to consider adding are both related to the output console: 1) 
> it would be very handy to have a 'clear console' button in the main 
> program window. For instance, I might output a lot of messages while 
> debugging a patch and it would be very nice to be able to clear the 
> console before running a modification of the patch, as to separate the 
> output from what came before.

Hi Gilberto,

Thanks for the kind message.

There's one in the menu for the main console window. Click "Edit" then 
"Clear Console." There is also a keyboard shortcut for it.

2) I just saw that Max 8 introduced a very 
> cool feature to their console which could also be very useful: they now 
> have a console filter field which will filter out all messages which do 
> not contain the input string. This could also be extremely handy while 
> debugging, among other uses.

Does it filter a) incoming messages, b) the content already in the 
console, c) both?

Purr Data has a "Find" feature that is in the menu, too. I think the 
shortcut is <Ctrl-f>. It will highlight the string you search and cycle 
through the results when you click <Enter>.

> Many thanks,
> Gilberto