[PD] implementing tooltips WAS: Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Tue Jul 12 22:01:21 CEST 2011
> > > > Then it
> > > > wouldn't even check
> > > > c_helpname.
> > > >
> > > > > Additionally, internal objects don't have a
> > > > c_externdir in 0.43 vanilla,
> > > > > but I guess even the vanilla objects are
> > going to be
> > > > in their own lib so
> > > > > that won't matter going forward, right?
> > > >
> > > > This is the case where it would fall back to
> > using
> > > > c_helpname. Like
> > > > this:
> > > >
> > > > - build helpfile path using c_externdir,
> > classname and
> > > > '-help.pd'
> > > > - else if above file does not exist, try
> > c_helpname
> > > > - else, use built-in defaults (or not).
> > >
> > > Is there a tcl variable for the built-in default doc
> > directory?
> >
> > In Tcl/pd-gui:
> > $::sys_libdir/doc
>
> Oh thanks. Wouldn't it be $::sys_libdir/doc/5.reference, though?
If you want the directory for the built-in help, yes.
.hc
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