[PD] should I use pddp/link in help patches?

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fre, 2017-06-02 at 09:45 +0000, Liam Goodacre wrote:
> Hi José
> 
> This will only work with a pre-loaded abstraction or subpatch. I'm
> talking about opening a new file that isn't already loaded.
> 
> You can open files like this:
> 
> [; pd open file.pd my/directory(
> 
> but it will only work with absolute, not relative directory paths.

It works with relative paths, too, but relative to Pd's start locaction
and not relative to calling patch (which basically boils down to
absolute in practice).


Why not simply create the object/abstraction, so that you just right-
click -> help when you want to follow the 'link'? It's how many help-
patches, including the ones of Pd, reference other objects.

Roman



> From: José de Abreu <abreubacelar at gmail.com>
> Sent: 02 June 2017 10:21
> To: Liam Goodacre; PD list
> Subject: Re: [PD] should I use pddp/link in help patches?
>  
> Maybe
> |; pd-nameOfSubpatch vis 1(
> 
> Em Sex, 2 de jun de 2017 03:03, Liam Goodacre <liamg_uw at hotmail.com>
> escreveu:
> > The [link] object is great for linking between help files, but I
> > don't know how many people use it now that Extended has gone. By
> > way of a survey, how many people have this external installed
> > already? Seems like it will just be a nuisance if people have to
> > download it just to read a help patch, but on the other hand it's a
> > shame to give up on it since it's such a useful tool.
> > 
> > Assuming that it's not widely used any more, are there any other
> > ways of opening a relative path from within PD?
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