[PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches
Miller Puckette
mpuckett at man104-1.ucsd.edu
Tue Sep 16 19:55:33 CEST 2003
Now why didn't I think of that?
OK, so as not to uproot people again I'll make it search for both,
but let's regard "metro-help.pd", etc., as the preferred form.
cheers
Miller
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:35:18PM -0400, Marc Lavalle wrote:
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> Le 16 Septembre 2003 12:01, vous avez écrit :
> > Hi Marc,
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> > You have to have a separate name for abstraction help patches because
> > (as of version 0.37) Pd looks in the directory the patch came from for
> > the help window. This allows people to "bundle" several extern
> > versions, plus a fallback abstraction, plus the help window, all in one
> > directory for easy installation.
>
> I like to embed help, comments and even examples in my abstactions,
> so I don't have to provide a seperate help patch. But I understand your
> point. Then maybe using "-help.pd" as a suffix instead of "help-" as a
> prefix would be a better idea, for readability, but I guess that's
> totally subjective. Another solution would be to use a different
> extension for help patches, something like ".pdh".
>
> - --
> Marc
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