[PD] helpbrowser and the paths

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Wed May 4 18:18:04 CEST 2011


Using Pd-extended 0.43.1-20110430 on Mac OS X I don't see this  
behvaior with Gem or gridflow.  The helpbrowser.tcl code is the same  
between pure-data and pd-extended.

.hc

On May 3, 2011, at 4:54 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

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> while preparing a debian package of Gem, i stumbled across a
> help-browser weirdness, which i'm not sure how to fix.
>
> the background: Gem comes both as a big binary (Gem.pd_linux) and a
> number of abstractions. everything is installed into /u/l/p/extra/Gem
> (to avoid cluttering the global filespace with Gem files); in order to
> use the abstractions painlessly (that is: without prefixing them
> "Gem/"), the /u/l/p/extra/Gem path has to be added somehow to Pd's
> search paths. (this can be done manually via the -path, or  
> automatically
> by Gem). so far so good.
>
> the problem: starting Pd with Gem added to the paths, results in a
> not-so-nice help-browser experience: basically the left column (the  
> one
> that is crucial for navigating the various directories) is filled with
> 224 or so help-patches from Gem, sorted alphabetically (so directories
> are lost somewhere between files), and upper-case before lower-case.
> of course there is also a directory entry for Gem/ in the help- 
> browser,
> making the information accessible two times (adding more confusion)
>
> given that both GF and Gem are to add their paths automatically on
> startup, the left column if the help-browser might have >500
> help-patches and several dozens of directories.
>
> i don't know exactly where to fix the problem, but a simple solution
> would be to only allow directories on the left side (and add an entry
> for "<searchpaths>" (probably an entry for "all searchpaths" and
> separate entries for each searchpath), rather than throwing everything
> together.
>
>
> fgmasdr
> IOhannes
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