Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Pd-extended did not introduce namespace prefixes, Miller did that
probably before I even heard of Pd. Pd-extended is just organized
around that idea. Pd-vanilla fully supports namespace prefixes. I
don't know how many times I have to say this, but it hasn't changed
since the beginning. I guess its just part of the ebb and flow of
this list to have this discussion every 6 months. ;)
I also have a strong Deja vu. ;)
Anyway, to reiterate the problem for others: *-help.pd files that are in the same directory as the abstractions that they document work everywhere:
Directory layout 1:
extra/prefix/abst.pd
extra/prefix/abst-help.pd <= uses [abst]
Start Pd:
$ pd -path extra -helppath extra
Create [prefix/abst], select Help on it, "prefix/abst-help.pd" is
opened and shows [abst]
But this doesn't work:
Directory layout 2:
extra/prefix/abst.pd
doc/prefix/abst-help.pd <= uses [abst]
Start Pd as:
$ pd -path extra -helppath doc
Create [prefix/abst], select Help on it, "prefix/abst-help.pd" is
opened, but [abst] is broken.
This is a well-known issue and as far as I see it has two fixes
a simple one: Use "Directory layout 1" or
and a complex one: Make a [declare]/[import] for Pd-vanilla that "works", agree on "prefix"es and add [declare]/[import] to the help file to load "prefix" locally.
There also is a bad (IMO) third fix: Make abst-help.pd use [prefix/abst], which is bad because it breaks, if you're not using "Directory layout 2" exactly, for example, if you make a copy of abst.pd and abst-help.pd in your working/project directory and don't install it globally.
Deja vu end.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht