[PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So... Frank... feel like writing some fearsome regex for this?  Let's 
see what cases I can come up with:

This is my format:

PACKAGE:
	HELP FILE NAME
	SETHELPSYMBOL

ext13:
	*.pd
    	class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("*"));
	
ggee:
	*.pd
	(no class_sethelpsymbol)

maxlib:
	help-*.pd
	#ifndef MAXLIB
     		class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("help-*.pd"));
	#else
     		class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("maxlib/help-*.pd"));
	#endif


unauthorized:
	help-*.pd
    	class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("help-*.pd"));

zexy:
	*.pd
	class_sethelpsymbol(*_class, gensym("zexy/*"));


There are other cases, but that's just what I came up with quickly.

.hc


On Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003, at 13:55 America/New_York, Miller Puckette 
wrote:

> 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,
>>>
>>> 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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