[PD] GEM help patches not found on Windows XP

rene beekman r at raakvlak.net
Sun Sep 13 22:17:11 CEST 2009


it is.
installing the update was easier than the workaround ;)

thanks again



On Sep 13, 2009, at 22:54, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> It should be fixed in 0.41.4
>
> .hc
>
> On Sep 13, 2009, at 1:46 PM, rene beekman wrote:
>
>> Great! thanks!
>>
>> Rene
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2009, at 20:38, John Harrison wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> -- 
>>> John
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