Hello all,
I've always been of the opinion that PD help documents should be:
a) named "help-"& objectname &".pd (actually, just objectname&".pd was fine with me, but I enjoyed the change in 0.37)
b) never group two or more objects (such as the "help-acoustics.pd" document)
c) always located in the doc/5.reference folder regardless of 'native' or 'external' relationship to PD
d) be accessible from within PD (i.e. a .pd document)
Would these rules simplify or complicate the problem?
Regards, Dave Sabine
-----Original Message----- From: pd-dev-admin@iem.at [mailto:pd-dev-admin@iem.at] On Behalf Of Miller Puckette Sent: September 15, 2003 10:44 PM To: Yves Degoyon Cc: pd-dev@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD-dev] pd 0.37 and help patches
I tried to remove the "help-" prefix and got into severe (but stupid) problems... The reason they're there is so that abstractions won't try to load themselves when you ask for help on them. But I should have designed the "sethelp" feature not to prepend the name. Now it's too complicated to back out of that (100s of names I would break again by taking it out!)
I did fix the wording of the error message at least... cheers Miller