[PD] help needed: "conditional" help patches

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

On 12/11/23 16:04, Christof Ressi wrote:
> 
> Interesting. The big disadvantage is that the roles are reversed: what 
> should be a subpatch is now the root window, so when the user tries to 
> close it, it closes the whole help patch... So I guess I'd rather prefer 
> my current solution.

totally. i was just trying to come up with alternative solutions.

> 
> But thanks for your input!

so how about that one:
your object could do some context-check, and suppress the error message 
when it is invoked in a help patch.
(the simplest check would just be whether the filename of the containing 
patch ends with "-help.pd"; alternatively you could embed some magic 
string in your help patch (on patch-level) and suppress the error only 
if this string is (also) present.

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