[PD] issue with help-patches in pd-0.40.0-testX

[Roman Haefeli]

hi all, hi miller

sorry, that i am *not* through yet with this topic. i still don't quite
see through the system of the helppatches and how and in which order
they are searched.
anyway, i noticed a difference to 0.39, if not a bug. it seems that
pd-0.40 cannot find helpfiles from some externals anymore, or in more
accurate words: it actucally *finds* the helppatches, but it does not
open them. showing helpfiles still works on pd's own objects and some
externals like iemmatrix or gridflow.

example:

a) i have all zexy-helpfiles in: 
/usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-zexy/

b) so the helpfile of [date] is this:
/usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-zexy/date.pd

c) then i start pd with '-verbose'-flag and create a [date].

d) right-click on [date] -> help.

the pd windows says:

<paste>
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/zexy/date-help.pd and failed
tried /home/roman/netpd/doc/zexy/date-help.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-gridflow/zexy/date-help.pd
and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-iemmatrix/zexy/date-help.pd
and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/zexy/date-help.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/zexy/date-help.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/extra/help-zexy/date.pd and failed
tried /home/roman/netpd/doc/help-zexy/date.pd and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-gridflow/help-zexy/date.pd
and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-iemmatrix/help-zexy/date.pd
and failed
tried /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-zexy/date.pd and succeeded
</paste>

everything ok so far, since it could find the appropriate help-file, but
the terminal (stderr) says:

<paste>
open: /usr/local/lib/pd/doc/5.reference/help-zexy/help-zexy/date.pd: No
such file or directory
help-zexy/date.pd: No such file or directory
</paste>

and pd doesn't open this non-existing file, of course.

this is *only* on 0.40 and only with externals, which add their
directory name to the searchpath (like zexy, Gem, iemlibs).

roman






		
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