Hi
I am giving a very short PD workshop soon and I want to give students a folder with some ready made examples. Within that folder there is a small library with some abstractions the examples use. Each abstraction has its own help file next to it. However right click > help on the abstraction objects of the examples does not open the help files because PD cannot find them. It only works if the library is located in the extra folder. This I want to avoid if possible.
I have tried to add the path of my library with abstractions in the preferences but this does not work. Is there any other simple way to achieve this?
thanks
enrike
your help file should have exactly the same filename as the original patch, but with -help.pd as its suffix.
so, for example, if your patch is called sine_tone.pd
then the help patch has to be called sine_tone-help.pd
it shouldn't matter about the extra folder if you do it correctly.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:52 PM, enrike altern2@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am giving a very short PD workshop soon and I want to give students a folder with some ready made examples. Within that folder there is a small library with some abstractions the examples use. Each abstraction has its own help file next to it. However right click > help on the abstraction objects of the examples does not open the help files because PD cannot find them. It only works if the library is located in the extra folder. This I want to avoid if possible.
I have tried to add the path of my library with abstractions in the preferences but this does not work. Is there any other simple way to achieve this?
thanks
enrike
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Yes they are all already named as you say. If the library folder is located in extra then they all open with rightclick > help, so the names should be fine. But PD cannot find them if the library is located next to the patch I am working on. We tried yesterday under Windows and now I tested it on Linux
az., 2013.eko azaren 13a 11:18(e)an, i go bananas(e)k idatzi zuen:
your help file should have exactly the same filename as the original patch, but with -help.pd as its suffix.
so, for example, if your patch is called sine_tone.pd
then the help patch has to be called sine_tone-help.pd
it shouldn't matter about the extra folder if you do it correctly.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 6:52 PM, enrike <altern2@gmail.com mailto:altern2@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi I am giving a very short PD workshop soon and I want to give students a folder with some ready made examples. Within that folder there is a small library with some abstractions the examples use. Each abstraction has its own help file next to it. However right click > help on the abstraction objects of the examples does not open the help files because PD cannot find them. It only works if the library is located in the extra folder. This I want to avoid if possible. I have tried to add the path of my library with abstractions in the preferences but this does not work. Is there any other simple way to achieve this? thanks enrike _________________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@iem.at> mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/__listinfo/pd-list <http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list>