[PD] helpbrowser and the paths

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 2011-05-04 18:18, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 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.

the problem also appears with "cxc" (as shipped with debian)
as soon as the user adds /usr/lib/pd/extra/cxc to their search paths,
you get both cxc/ and all cxc-abstractions in the rootwindow of the
help-browser.

the problem also appears with Pd-0.43.1-extended-debian-squeeze-i386.

afaik, it is perfectly valid to add the path to a library to your search
paths (even if your personal workflow might be different), as a matter
of fact, this was the suggested way to load libdirs in PdX until
recently. it seems weird that this will now degrade the usability of the
help browser.

fgamdr
IOhannes

PS: very minor sidenote
$ diff /usr/lib/pd-extended/tcl/helpbrowser.tcl
/usr/lib/puredata/tcl/helpbrowser.tcl
Files /usr/lib/pd-extended/tcl/helpbrowser.tcl and
/usr/lib/puredata/tcl/helpbrowser.tcl differ
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAk3Bi+AACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvR1fACfbVUALQApEKQCs6Z/v1CuI+Cq
cMgAnAjQrkaKuQsKNM1W9aL/UT+lasyC
=OzFU
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 3636 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/attachments/20110504/66a12739/attachment.bin>