On 12/11/23 16:04, Christof Ressi wrote:
Interesting. The big disadvantage is that the roles are reversed: what should be a subpatch is now the root window, so when the user tries to close it, it closes the whole help patch... So I guess I'd rather prefer my current solution.
totally. i was just trying to come up with alternative solutions.
But thanks for your input!
so how about that one: your object could do some context-check, and suppress the error message when it is invoked in a help patch. (the simplest check would just be whether the filename of the containing patch ends with "-help.pd"; alternatively you could embed some magic string in your help patch (on patch-level) and suppress the error only if this string is (also) present.