A really useful feature would be a menu listing all available objects, sorted by library. Perhaps a way to access an object's help patch directly from the menu. It would make browsing and searching for objects easier than searching for the libraries' READMEs or through the 5.reference directory.
Ben
A really useful feature would be a menu listing all available objects, sorted by library.
this already exists however only for the built in pd objects . it is not done for externals i image because they are something that the user must download and install on their own . Rory Walsh has this implement . He posted here : http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2002-04/0565.html . This feature has not yet been incorporated into Miller's download version of pd . I havent looked into how it was accomplished in the tk/tcl code , however what would be really useful and extensiable is if the object menu was populated by a text file that could be edit for the purpost of adding extenal library objects to the list .
joge .
Perhaps a way to access an object's help patch directly from the menu. It would make browsing and searching for objects easier than searching for the libraries' READMEs or through the 5.reference directory.
Ben
On Fri, 10 May 2002, joge . wrote:
I havent looked into how it was accomplished in the tk/tcl code , however what would be really useful and extensiable is if the object menu was populated by a text file that could be edit for the purpost of adding extenal library objects to the list .
For libraries this could be done the same way as for general object by just using the class_new register method. Or there is somethig to register reference patches too in pd, it is just not shown in any menu.
For externals the path should be scanned about what is there. I think its pretty hard to maintain a text file for this purpose.
Guenter
joge .
Perhaps a way to access an object's help patch directly from the menu. It would make browsing and searching for objects easier than searching for the libraries' READMEs or through the 5.reference directory.
Ben
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