[PD] GEM help patches not found on Windows XP

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It should be fixed in 0.41.4

.hc

On Sep 13, 2009, at 1:46 PM, rene beekman wrote:

> Great! thanks!
>
> Rene
>
>
>
> On Sep 13, 2009, at 20:38, John Harrison wrote:
>
>> Workaround:
>>
>> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2009-04/013366.html
>>
>> BTW you might confirm that the 8.3 filename for Program Files is  
>> indeed PROGRA~1 on your system... I think it usually is but you can  
>> check that from the command line. I think there's a flag in the dir  
>> command to show you the 8.3 filename...or you can use old skool  
>> COMMAND.COM and see what it lists the directory as...at least this  
>> is what I recall. No Windows machine around to check...
>>
>> -John
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, <r at raakvlak.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get Pd to find the GEM help patches for its objects,  
>> but am having no luck so far.
>> Default installation of pd-extended (version 0.40.3) keeps giving  
>> me 'sorry, couldn't find help patch for ...' messages
>>
>> I've added the path C/Program Files/pd/extra/Gem to paths. Still no  
>> love.
>>
>> I have noticed that the folder with GEM helpfiles appear to be in  
>> two locations; /extra and /doc/5.reference - is this normal?
>>
>> All other helpfiles seem to work without a problem, just can't get  
>> Gem to behave :S
>>
>> BTW, I've seen this identical problem on every windows installation  
>> I know (over half a dozen), including 1 under a virtual machine on  
>> Mac OS X.
>> The Mac-native version of pd-extended does not have this problem.
>>
>> The problem is compounded by Pd starting a new instance when you  
>> double-click a patch under Windows.
>> If it would open in the same intance, I'd just have a window with  
>> help patches open...
>>
>> Any help in solving this would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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>> -- 
>> John
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