<!--#yiv4778588404 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}-->> The [link] object is
great for linking between help files, but I don't know how many people use it
now that Extended has gone. By way of a survey, how many people have this
external installed already? Seems like it will just be a nuisance if people
have to download it just to read a help patch, but on the other hand it's a
shame to give up on it since it's such a useful tool.
Is it really named "link"? That name clashes with pmpd/link
In Purr Data/Pd-l2ork (and Pd-extended) there are these:pddp/pddplink: link to
a pd patch or external text/html filepddp/helplink: link to the help patch for
a Pd object
helplink lets you cross-reference other objects
without having to load their libraries or instantiate them.
For example: imagine that the [bar] help patch author has a
"related objects" subpatch with another author's object
[foo] in it. Now, imagine the author of [foo] changes the
implementation of [foo] so that it allocates hundreds of
megabytes when [foo] gets created.
If you use [helplink], then only users who are interested
in [foo] will experience crashes. If not, any user who opens
a help patch with a "related object" [foo] may experience a
crash. The first group is almost always smaller than the
second group, and that's why helplink was created.
-Jonathan
p.s.-- this (now fixed) out-of-memory bug is a true story
> Assuming that it's not widely used any more, are there any other ways of
> opening a relative path from within PD?
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