Hi Lao,
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 19:55 +0800, Lao Yu wrote:
from the ongoing discussion about Max/MSP compatibility I wonder if
it would be a good idea to create a list of available objects in the
extended version, quite as it exists for vanilla. For someone who is
getting acquainted - like me - it sure would be a useful thing, I
mean like '5.referemce/help-intro.pd'. Does anybody work on such a
thing?
The attached script might serve as a starting point for something. It will list all externals under a given 'extra' directory, and optionally print all the comments from the corresponding help file if there is one.
It could easily be adapted to output in csv format, or print the library a given external is part of.
One caveat: it assumes that your extra directory has only one level of nesting, so it only looks in extra/ and extra/* not extra/*/* etc.
Jamie