--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: implementing tooltips WAS: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43 updates: lots > of new editing features > To: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]>, "Martin Peach" > <[email protected]>, "pd-list" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 3:28 AM > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hans-Christoph > Steiner wrote: > > > IMHO, I don't think we should support other ways of > specifying the help file. There are very few objects that > use it, those are fixed in Pd-extended, it'll add a lot to > the work of doing this, etc. etc. So I say just take > the object name and add the '-help' to it. That covers > 99.5% of objects. Then once its working, it should be > possible to go back and add hacks to support hacks ;) > > c_helpname is not a hack, it doesn't need to be «fixed», > and it shouldn't be «fixed». It's there for a reason. One thing I'm running into is that c_helpname doesn't help with abstractions-- it obviously just returns "canvas". I guess I could then compare to the first atom in te_binbuf and if it's not "pd" then it's the name of the abstraction. But that still doesn't get me the dir. -Jonathan > > If I right-click help on a [*~] box, will it try to get > *~-help.pd, which is not an allowed filename on win32 ? > > What could hexloader possibly do about this ? > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
