(like my trusted MS VisualStudio 6)
Or good old "Clippy" in MS Office :-)
Joking aside, this is really great! I'll certainly contribute.
However, how do people find out about the GUI plugin in the first place?
I think eventually this has to be shipped with Pd and enabled by
default, with a simple option to disable it ("Don't show this again").
Christof
On 08.06.2022 11:42, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
TL;DR if you know any quick tips for using Pd, submit them at
https://github.com/pd-externals/tipoftheday-plugin/issues/new/choose
long version:
as you all know, Pd comes with a built-in documentation, that
illustrates how to use various objects and stuff (and alex has done a
fantastic job in revising these patches in the last months).
for a deeper understanding of Pd, there's the HTML manual (which looks
nice, after lucarda added some CSS).
however, i think that there are a couple of things that need
documentation which cannot really be covered by either help patches
nor manuals.
e.g. "intelligent patching" (where i've spent a bit of time to get it
working) or other workflow tricks do not fit well in either category:
if they are explained in some help-patches then only people who
actively walk through those patches will ever see them (and i believe
most people just open the help-patch of a given object they are
interested; but what would you open for a non-object that you don't
even know about).
similarly, i have a feeling that the manual is not the best place for
this either (first, the manual deals with the "larger picture" rather
than interface tricks; second, the manual is more of an off-line
resource (that you may read when not sitting in front of a running
instance of Pd).
just recently i mentioned the "triggerize" functionality to someone,
and they never ever heard of it!
to fix this, i've created a small GUI-plugin to display a "tip of the
day" whenever Pd is started.
i think this (Pd's startup phase) is the right time to learn something
new (in tiny bits) - after all, other applications (like my trusted MS
VisualStudio 6) did the same).
the tips are super-simple: just a short text, with an optional URL for
more information and support for displaying (animated) GIFs (patching
is oft explained better by showing).
the GUI-plugin is available on
https://github.com/pd-externals/tipoftheday-plugin/
but there's no release (and thus no deken package) yet.
There's also an experimental webinterface where you can browse the
existing tips at <https://pd.iem.sh/tipoftheday-plugin/>
so far so good.
The only drawback right now is, that there are only a very few tips
available yet (a total of *4*, mainly for testing).
so before this is going to be released to the public, I'd like to
collect a few (hundred) more tips
this is where you come into play:
if you know any quick tips, patching tricks or hacks, please submit
them in the issue-tracker at
<https://github.com/pd-externals/tipoftheday-plugin/issues/new/choose>
(the "Tip of the Day" issue-type will give you a form that you should
fill in; this should keep the entry barrier to creating new tips low).
thanks for helping out.
gmasdr
IOhannes
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