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

[Thomas Grill]

Hi Julius,
that was indeed a flext bug. It is fixed in tomorrow's cvs.

best greetings,
Thomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julius Smith" <jos at ccrma.stanford.edu>
To: "Thomas Grill" <t.grill at gmx.net>
Cc: <msp at ucsd.edu>; "d.lj" <jdl at xdv.org>; "pd-dev" <pd-dev at iem.kug.ac.at>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [PD-dev] Help search; standard external installation paths


> 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/
>
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