[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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