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

[Julius Smith]

Hi Miller,

Hmmm, it sounds like I must have a special problem of some kind.
I'll go after it on my machine (a Red Hat 9 Linux system) and report back.

Thanks,
Julius

At 05:12 PM 2/6/2004, Miller Puckette wrote:
>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#SECTION0009210000000 
> 00000000
> > >
> > >
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Julius O. Smith III <jos at ccrma.stanford.edu>
Assoc. Prof. of Music and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering
CCRMA, Stanford University
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/