How about Daniels "example" abstraction just dropped inside the help patch? would not take any space or make things more confusing, but you can still copy and paste it into another patch) This is along the lines of the "more information" subpatch idea someone already mentioned.
Ben
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hi, Daniel Heckenberg hat gesagt: // Daniel Heckenberg wrote:
Many pd doco (help files) present little sections of useful connections to illustrate the working of the relevant object. But why not have the object with all (or almost all) of its useful inputs connected to relevant controls in the help file, along with inlets and outlets to the help patch? Then instead of plonking a new object into your patch, you can insert the help file abstraction into your graph and then open it to manipulate the controls? Someone did some help files for nato which work this way. Very handy.
The recently introduced graph on parent feature provides an IMO very nice solution to this. With GOP, you can build higher level objects that come with their GUI included. Three examples of this are included im my "angriff" drum patch at footils.org, the most simple one therein is [easydac~] which is a stereo dac~ object having a volume control slider (0-1) and a dsp-on/off switch.
Maybe we could start collecting such abstractions somewhere, but I don't think the helpfiles are the right place, they should focus on explaining the objects.
ciao,
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__