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

[Liam Goodacre]

Here's the best solution I've come up with so far, using [iemguts/classtest] to determine whether the system has access to [pddplink]. If yes, then the toc2.pd is loaded (with links); if no, then toc1.pd is loaded (with text only). If the user doesn't have iemguts, they will get error messages, but toc1 will still load.


Note: The object I've been talking about is of course "pddplink", not "link" which I had written previously by mistake.


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From: Pd-list <pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at> on behalf of Liam Goodacre <liamg_uw at hotmail.com>
Sent: 02 June 2017 11:42
To: PD list
Subject: Re: [PD] should I use pddp/link in help patches?


Hi Roman


Context, the system I'm documenting, is far too big to be explained in a single help-patch, so I want the 'context-help.pd' file to function more like a Table of Contents for the rest of the documentation (plus a few quick examples). It would be nice if the TOC could link to other files.


-Liam


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From: Pd-list <pd-list-bounces at lists.iem.at> on behalf of Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com>
Sent: 02 June 2017 11:03
To: pd-list at lists.iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD] should I use pddp/link in help patches?

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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