A small thing: I discovered today that the name of metro's help file in doc/5.reference is 'metro.pd 'rather than 'metro-help.pd'. Every other help patch I've seen has the '-help' ending to it. On my old MacBook with vanilla 42.5, there is no problem right-clicking and asking for the patch, but I was helping a friend whose just learning Pd and has a newer MacBook and the latest release of vanilla for Mac, and it wouldn't load the help patch until I renamed the file 'metro-help.pd'.
Obviously this is a very small detail, but it just so happened to derail our work for about 1/2 an hour until I found the root of the problem. So heads up. Also, I'm curious as to why metro's helpfile isn't titled metro-help.pd and why it loads on some versions of pd, but not others.
-David
I dropped support in 0.46 for having the help file have the same name as the object name (because it gets confusing for abstractions). It was a mistake that the metro help file was named without the "-help". I'm fixing that for the upcoming 0.46-2.
cheers Miller
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:28:19PM -0700, david medine wrote:
A small thing: I discovered today that the name of metro's help file in doc/5.reference is 'metro.pd 'rather than 'metro-help.pd'. Every other help patch I've seen has the '-help' ending to it. On my old MacBook with vanilla 42.5, there is no problem right-clicking and asking for the patch, but I was helping a friend whose just learning Pd and has a newer MacBook and the latest release of vanilla for Mac, and it wouldn't load the help patch until I renamed the file 'metro-help.pd'.
Obviously this is a very small detail, but it just so happened to derail our work for about 1/2 an hour until I found the root of the problem. So heads up. Also, I'm curious as to why metro's helpfile isn't titled metro-help.pd and why it loads on some versions of pd, but not others.
-David
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M> It was a mistake that the metro help file was named without the
M> "-help". I'm fixing that for the upcoming 0.46-2.
Seems the Makefile in ^HEAD (tag 0.46-2) still looks for metro.pd
Cheers,
-anders
Thanks... I updated this in the git repo (and moved the "0.46-2" tag to the updated version).
M
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:17:53PM +0200, anders.vinjar@bek.no wrote:
M> It was a mistake that the metro help file was named without the M> "-help". I'm fixing that for the upcoming 0.46-2.Seems the Makefile in ^HEAD (tag 0.46-2) still looks for metro.pd
Cheers,
-anders
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