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

[Julius Smith]

Hi Thomas,

It appears you are right.  The problem disappears when I add the line

   DefineHelp("name~");

inside the invocation of

   FLEXT_NEW_DSP("name~",name)

in name~.cpp (more often called main.cpp).

Is this a flext bug?

Thanks,
Julius

At 01:33 AM 2/7/2004, Thomas Grill wrote:
>Hi Julius,
>could this be a problem related to flext usage?
>
>best greetings,
>Thomas
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Julius Smith" <jos at ccrma.stanford.edu>
>To: <msp at ucsd.edu>
>Cc: "d.lj" <jdl at xdv.org>; "pd-dev" <pd-dev at iem.kug.ac.at>
>Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:33 AM
>Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Help search; standard external installation paths
>
>
> > 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/