[PD] implementing tooltips WAS: Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> IMHO, I don't think we should support other ways of specifying the help 
> file. There are very few objects that use it, those are fixed in 
> Pd-extended, it'll add a lot to the work of doing this, etc. etc.  So I 
> say just take the object name and add the '-help' to it.  That covers 
> 99.5% of objects.  Then once its working, it should be possible to go 
> back and add hacks to support hacks ;)

c_helpname is not a hack, it doesn't need to be «fixed», and it shouldn't 
be «fixed». It's there for a reason.

If I right-click help on a [*~] box, will it try to get *~-help.pd, which 
is not an allowed filename on win32 ?

What could hexloader possibly do about this ?

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