[PD-dev] adding pdpedia links to all help patches

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sounds like a good idea, and a nice comprimise, definitely give it a  
shot.

.hc

On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote:

> Hi,
> Maybe an idea would be a help-menu entry that says "go to this patch's
> page in the Pdpedia", that detects the frontmost window's patch name
> (this must be possible, since [getpatchname] does it from within Pd).
> It could filter out the -help.pd part, and then it would work for
> object helpfiles as well as just open abstractions (and would make it
> easy to add Pdpedia text to an object, since visiting a nonexistent
> page in Pdpedia gives you the opportunity to edit it).
>
> I wouldn't mind trying to do this.
>
> Cheers
> Luke
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 5:33 PM, marius schebella
> <marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I really think this should be done by hand, and every pdpedia page  
>> has
>>  to be fixed together with the help patch (right now all the
>>  texts/comments of a help patch were just dumped into the pdpedia  
>> pages).
>>  then you can give the patches a good layout/design. and there  
>> must be
>>  relevant additional information on the pdpedia pages for it to make
>>  sense to link to the pdpedia pages. pdpedia is not well mentained  
>> right
>>  now...
>>  I would like to see "link" in pd-vanilla. but don't know if that  
>> counts,
>>  because I also would like to see a lot of other objects in pd- 
>> vanilla...
>>  marius.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> I want to add links to all of the help patches in SVN to their
>>> respective pdpedia pages.  Ideally, I could check these into  
>>> trunk so
>>> that they would become a permanent addition.  The problem is that  
>>> the
>>> link object is not included in pd-vanilla ([pddp/pddplink]).
>>>
>>> Who does not want this checked into trunk?
>>>
>>> .hc
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