Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

"Static" is key here.  The whole point of a standard interface detail like that is so that you don't have to assume that users know anything specific about your program in order for them to get help.  So if a pd user has just selected an object in edit mode, then gets confused and wants to go back to that "F1" help entry point, but you bring up the selected object's help patch instead, you have just defeated the purpose of having an "F1" entry point.

I think that I recall that some programmes used Shift+F1 for contextual help, both by analogy with F1, and to leave the plain F1 reserved for non-contextual bindings.

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