hi matteo, the help patches for gem usually go into doc/5.reference/Gem (the capital letter G makes no difference on Windows). but there is no rule about this, and since the subdirectories of 5.reference are *not* searched by default, you can also put them directly into doc/5.reference. otherwise you have to add the path in your settings, which for vanilla is probably not set by default. good luck, marius.

Matteo Sisti Sette wrote:

Hi,

I've just installed the latest 0.91 beta GEM version for windows, using the .bat installer that comes in the package, which copies all help and documentation files where (supposedly) needed. I installed it over a pd-vanilla 0.41-2.

In the installer patch I edited the following lines:

REM where does PD reside ??
set PDPATH="%PROGRAMFILES%\pd 0.41-2"
REM which pd-version do we have ?
set PDVERSION=0.41

If I create an [alpha] or [color] or [gemwin], [gemhead], [pix_texture], [rectangle] or ALMOST any objects, and then right-click on them and select "help", I get the message:

sorry, couldn't find help patch for "alpha.pd"

But I do can get the help patch for [pix_film] and [pix_movie] !!!! (they seem to be the only 2 objects whose help I can open, among the ones I have tried).

What am I doing wrong?

I now see that all the help patches have been copied to %PDPATH%/extra/help-Gem

I have also tried by manually copying them also into %PDPATH%/doc/5.reference/gem but it doesn't work either.

Where should I put the help patches???

On another machine where I installed an older version of GEM it used to work......

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