--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: implementing tooltips WAS: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots of new editing features To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" hans@at.or.at Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com, "Martin Peach" martin.peach@sympatico.ca, "pd-list" pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 3:28 AM On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
IMHO, I don't think we should support other ways of
specifying the help file. There are very few objects that use it, those are fixed in Pd-extended, it'll add a lot to the work of doing this, etc. etc. So I say just take the object name and add the '-help' to it. That covers 99.5% of objects. Then once its working, it should be possible to go back and add hacks to support hacks ;)
c_helpname is not a hack, it doesn't need to be «fixed», and it shouldn't be «fixed». It's there for a reason.
One thing I'm running into is that c_helpname doesn't help with abstractions-- it obviously just returns "canvas". I guess I could then compare to the first atom in te_binbuf and if it's not "pd" then it's the name of the abstraction. But that still doesn't get me the dir.
-Jonathan
If I right-click help on a [*~] box, will it try to get *~-help.pd, which is not an allowed filename on win32 ?
What could hexloader possibly do about this ?
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