[PD] GEM help patches not found on Windows XP

[rene beekman]

Great! thanks!

Rene



On Sep 13, 2009, at 20:38, John Harrison wrote:

> Workaround:
>
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-dev/2009-04/013366.html
>
> BTW you might confirm that the 8.3 filename for Program Files is  
> indeed PROGRA~1 on your system... I think it usually is but you can  
> check that from the command line. I think there's a flag in the dir  
> command to show you the 8.3 filename...or you can use old skool  
> COMMAND.COM and see what it lists the directory as...at least this  
> is what I recall. No Windows machine around to check...
>
> -John
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:02 AM, <r at raakvlak.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get Pd to find the GEM help patches for its objects,  
> but am having no luck so far.
> Default installation of pd-extended (version 0.40.3) keeps giving me  
> 'sorry, couldn't find help patch for ...' messages
>
> I've added the path C/Program Files/pd/extra/Gem to paths. Still no  
> love.
>
> I have noticed that the folder with GEM helpfiles appear to be in  
> two locations; /extra and /doc/5.reference - is this normal?
>
> All other helpfiles seem to work without a problem, just can't get  
> Gem to behave :S
>
> BTW, I've seen this identical problem on every windows installation  
> I know (over half a dozen), including 1 under a virtual machine on  
> Mac OS X.
> The Mac-native version of pd-extended does not have this problem.
>
> The problem is compounded by Pd starting a new instance when you  
> double-click a patch under Windows.
> If it would open in the same intance, I'd just have a window with  
> help patches open...
>
> Any help in solving this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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