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 <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/ > listinfo/pd-list >
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