[PD-dev] Help search; standard external installation paths

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Julius,

I can't find where the tilde is getting deleted... I just got help for the
extern "fiddle~" which picked up "help-fiddle~.pd" correctly.  So I have
no idea what's going on here...

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:53:04AM -0800, Julius Smith wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  Is there a recommended way to access this function 
> [class_sethelpsymbol(t_class *c, t_symbol *s)] via flext?
> 
> It still seems to me that the default behavior (removing the tilde) is 
> incorrect.
> 
> Julius
> 
> At 02:48 AM 1/27/2004, d.lj wrote:
> >[Julius Smith]->[[PD-dev] Help search; standard external installation...
> >
> > |Dear pd-dev,
> > |
> > |When pd searches for a help file in response to "right-click Help" on 
> > some
> > |external object, the '~' is removed from the sought filename.  This seems
> > |incorrect since it prevents "signal-based" and "message-based" objects 
> > from
> > |having the same root name.  I would think the '~' should be 
> > fundamentally a
> > |part of the module's name.
> > |
> > |My current workaround is to install a symbolic link from "help-name~.pd" 
> > to
> > |"help-name.pd" in my doc dir for externals, which seems rather ugly.
> >
> >the help file can be set:
> >http://iem.kug.ac.at/pd/externals-HOWTO/node9.html#SECTION000921000000000000000
> >
> >
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