[PD] help browser rewrite

[Kyle Klipowicz]

I have one request, and that's one that fbar wrote about a while back.

Is it possible to make the help menu keyboard-navigable? That would ease a
lot of pains in using it.

~Kyle

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:

>
> So I am in the midst of rewriting the Help Browser to make it based on
> which libraries are installed and usable, i.e which libraries can be found
> in the global path.  For me, the key part is making it dynamically built and
> based on the libraries that are in use.  I don't have a strong idea of other
> parts.
>
> The idea is to make it based around the libdir/dirlib approach of having
> all files for a library in a single folder with a standardized but easy
> structure.  Here's a basic outline of that structure as it stands now:
>
> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/Libdir/
>
> Right now, I am thinking that the top level of the help browser will have
> special sections for the classic pd-vanilla docs (1.manual,
> 2.control.examples, etc.) another special section for tutorials of any kind,
> then all of the libraries and stray help patches found in the path.
>
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> .hc
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