first stab at a simple plugin for creating a object-by-category menu by a simple text filesvn2git-root

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diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
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+This software is copyrighted by Miller Puckette and others.  The following
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diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
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+This plugin builds a object-by-category menu on the popup menu so you can create objects by browsing via category.
+
+This project was started at Eyebeam as part of an X-lab Residency and grew out of the NYC Patching Circle.
+
+Hans-Christoph Steiner
+Joshua Clayton
+Sofy Yuditskaya
diff --git a/category_menu-plugin.tcl b/category_menu-plugin.tcl
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+
+package require pd_menus
+
+namespace eval category_menu {
+}
+
+proc category_menu::load_menutree {} {
+    # load object -> tags mapping from file in Pd's path
+    set testfile [file join $::current_plugin_loadpath menutree.tcl]
+    set f [open $testfile]
+    set menutree [read $f]
+    close $f
+    unset f        
+    return $menutree
+}
+
+proc category_menu::create {mymenu} {
+    pdtk_post "category menu plugin\n"
+    set menutree [load_menutree]
+
+    $mymenu add separator
+    foreach categorylist $menutree {
+        set category [lindex $categorylist 0]
+        menu $mymenu.$category
+        $mymenu add cascade -label $category -menu $mymenu.$category
+        foreach subcategorylist [lrange $categorylist 1 end] {
+            set subcategory [lindex $subcategorylist 0]
+            menu $mymenu.$category.$subcategory
+            $mymenu.$category add cascade -label $subcategory -menu $mymenu.$category.$subcategory
+            pdtk_post "subcategorylist: $subcategorylist\n"
+            foreach item [lindex $subcategorylist 1] {
+                pdtk_post "item: $item\n"
+                $mymenu.$category.$subcategory add command -label $item \
+                    -command "pdsend \"\$::focused_window obj \$::popup_xcanvas \$::popup_ycanvas $item\""
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+category_menu::create .popup
diff --git a/menutree.tcl b/menutree.tcl
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+{category1 
+    {subcategory1
+        {1a b2 c3 d4}}
+    {subcategory2 
+        {1a 2b 3c 4d}}}
+{category2
+    {subcategoryA 
+        {a1 b2 c3 d4}}
+    {subcategoryB
+        {1a 2b 3c 4d}}}
+{audio
+    {math
+        {+~ /~ *~ pow}}}