Ok, I have a come up with the following solution: I moved the multichannel section into a dedicated patch and open it with [;pd open <name> <dir> 1( when the user clicks a bang button in the main help patch. It's not perfect, but kind of works for my purposes.
I am still wondering if anyone has run into the same issue and found other solutions.
Christof
On 05.12.2023 22:00, Christof Ressi wrote:
Hi,
I have a library with /optional /multi-channel support. If you try to create the object with the "-m" flag and Pd does not have multi-channel support, it would print an error message. This works all fine, but there's a tricky problem with the help patches. Of course, I want to document the multi-channel feature, but I don't want the help patch to print errors when loaded in older Pd versions.
The only solution I see at the moment is to have two version of the help patch and then register the appropriate version in the setup function with "class_sethelpsymbol". However, this would be a maintenance nightmare. Also, the help patches would obviously need to have different names, so only one of them would match the name of the object.
Has anyone run into a similar situation? Any ideas?
Christof
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