[PD] notes/questions from a beginner
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Sat Aug 27 22:39:58 CEST 2011
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> "Static" is key here. The whole point of a standard interface detail
> like that is so that you don't have to assume that users know anything
> specific about your program in order for them to get help. So if a pd
> user has just selected an object in edit mode, then gets confused and
> wants to go back to that "F1" help entry point, but you bring up the
> selected object's help patch instead, you have just defeated the purpose
> of having an "F1" entry point.
I think that I recall that some programmes used Shift+F1 for contextual
help, both by analogy with F1, and to leave the plain F1 reserved for
non-contextual bindings.
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