Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
There is much that can and should be done. Here's some ideas ranked into of difficulty:
- file a bug report when a help patch is not working
- write and improve help patches, and submit them to the patch tracker
is there a convention about how to make it work? i.e. should one use declare, import or namespace prefix?
i guess all help-files that are not loaded on default would need a declare/import/or-namespace in order to work...
i want to contribute and help to make "all"/more helpfiles work. i know there is pddp but afaik it does not solve the declare/import/or-namespace problem.
could all developers express their opinion and agree on how to make all helpfiles work? :)
i'm not a developer but i would vote for declare i.e. [declare -stdlib mrpeach] to packOSC-help.pd then it would work with pd vanilla too.
- add a search pane to the help panel
is this done in tcl/tk? is there any documentation about that on puredata.info?
- help design and code a library format that bundles objectclasses,
helpfiles, manuals, examples, etc then write code to index it all, and create a GUI to navigate that content
At this point, I think it is mostly a waste of time to do constant little workarounds like moving around objects. We should be putting our scarce resources towards real improvements, not temporary fixes, IMHO.
.hc