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

[Jonathan Wilkes]

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca> wrote:

> From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>
> Subject: Re: implementing tooltips WAS: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features
> To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans at at.or.at>
> Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika at yahoo.com>, "Martin Peach" <martin.peach at sympatico.ca>, "pd-list" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 3:28 AM
> 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.

One thing I'm running into is that c_helpname doesn't help with abstractions-- it obviously just returns "canvas".  I guess I could then compare to the first atom in te_binbuf and if it's not "pd" then it's the name of the abstraction.  But that still doesn't get me the dir.

-Jonathan

> 
> 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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