Hi all, after much time I have decided to upgrade (in some linux computers) PD to version 0.38-4. At the same time I have decided to begin to know GEM, I have compiled Gem and Gem-lib from CVS (on slackware 10,1) without problems, thanks to GEM maintainer ! I have decided to leave all in the sources folders in these positions: /home/sources/puredata/pd-0.38-4 /home/sources/puredata/Gem
Copying the content of the "help" folder of Gem in the "5.reference" folder of PD the right-mouse-button on the gem object work fine.
The question: how I can hold in different position the help-files of gem from those of pd?
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ciccolix wrote:
Hi all,
I have decided to leave all in the sources folders in these positions: /home/sources/puredata/pd-0.38-4 /home/sources/puredata/Gem
Copying the content of the "help" folder of Gem in the "5.reference" folder of PD the right-mouse-button on the gem object work fine.
with pd>=0.37 you shouldn't do it like that.
the help-files are searched (additionally, but with a higher priority) relatively to the place where the library was found. so if your Gem.pd_linux is actually /home/sources/puredata/Gem/Gem.pd_linux then the references will be searched in /home/sources/puredata/Gem/help-Gem/*.pd so you could just do a symbolic link from <...>/Gem/help to <...>/Gem/help-Gem/
btw: "make install" should put the help-files into <pdpath>/extra/help-Gem because Gem likes to install its binary into <pdpath>/extra/
The question: how I can hold in different position the help-files of gem from those of pd?
and you can always specify the help-path with the "-help-path"-flag (the only problem is, that Gem's reference patches explicitely have the "Gem/" in their name; so if you specify a help-path "path/to/helppatches", the actual patches should be in "path/to/helppatches/Gem/" (i think...)
mfg.asd.r IOhannes
Hey Johannes & Miller,
I was not aware of this change of policy in the help-files for 0.38+ How does it fit into the documentation discussion we had on IRC? Are we imagining libs like Gem could include all files (including help) in some subdirectory of "extra" like:
/usr/local/lib/pd/extra/Gem
And the examples and such all go in a subdirectory of there?
Anyhow I'm just feeling out how the current changes to 0.38 fit into the doc discussion.
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IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
ciccolix wrote:
Hi all,
I have decided to leave all in the sources folders in these positions: /home/sources/puredata/pd-0.38-4 /home/sources/puredata/Gem
Copying the content of the "help" folder of Gem in the "5.reference" folder of PD the right-mouse-button on the gem object work fine.
with pd>=0.37 you shouldn't do it like that.
the help-files are searched (additionally, but with a higher priority) relatively to the place where the library was found. so if your Gem.pd_linux is actually /home/sources/puredata/Gem/Gem.pd_linux then the references will be searched in /home/sources/puredata/Gem/help-Gem/*.pd so you could just do a symbolic link from <...>/Gem/help to <...>/Gem/help-Gem/
btw: "make install" should put the help-files into <pdpath>/extra/help-Gem because Gem likes to install its binary into <pdpath>/extra/
The question: how I can hold in different position the help-files of gem from those of pd?
and you can always specify the help-path with the "-help-path"-flag (the only problem is, that Gem's reference patches explicitely have the "Gem/" in their name; so if you specify a help-path "path/to/helppatches", the actual patches should be in "path/to/helppatches/Gem/" (i think...)
mfg.asd.r IOhannes
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