Hello,
We're working on a revamp of the whole way help files are handled in PD. Some of the proposal is at:
http://puredata.org/Members/bbogart/PDDocumentationStructure/
The highlights are:
An automagically filled menu that fills up based on meta-data embeded in the PD help patch. Through this meta-data the user could also search through the patches for all loaded externals AND abstractions for keywords.
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jmmmp wrote:
Hello listers,
I was thinking: since most of us have their own utilities (abstractions) collection, wouldn't it make sense to include an "expandable" custom menu in the gui to provide an easy acess to the files? after a certain number, it is not possible anymore to remember everything. I myself don't know how to work with tcl-tk, and maybe I'm too lazy now or don't have the time to fool around and find it out (I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult). But something like this would be handy:
- the "custom" menu would be there, but empty
- the documentation would include a couple of lines which would explain how
to fill up the menu and edit the pd.tk (?) file -> how to name the new string, and which patch it opens.
a common base would also allow different users to exchange menus, just like patches are now exchanged.
wouldn't that be great?
João Miguel Pais
Lugostr. 14 79100 Freiburg i. Br. Deutschland +49 (0)761 7074997 jmmmp@arcor.de
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