This is an interesting idea... I'll stick it on my (long) dolist... I don't think there's any existing way you can do this in Pd.
cheers Miller
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 10:21:42AM -0500, Larry Troxler wrote:
Hello, I'm trying to clean up my pd-scheme library a bit, and would like to implement the canvas help.
The problem is, from the point of view of PD, I have a single extern where the first argument tells scheme which scheme extern to make. So I was hoping that I could get the help action to look up the help file according to this first argument and not just the class name.
Looking at the sources, I am not sure how to do this, or even if this is designed to be possible. I am thinking that in my setup I would reset the help method for my class, but this won't work because my help action would need access to the object and not just the class.
I guess the answer is that this goes against the design of PD, but I thought I'd post this in case there's some ideas or I'm overlooking something.
Larry