Patches item #3296739, was opened at 2011-05-03 04:44
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Category: puredata
Group: bugfix
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: make helpbrowser separate directories and patches
Initial Comment:
starting Pd(0.43) with custom search paths (e.g. "-path /path/to/Gem), results
in a not-so-nice help-browser experience:
basically the left column (the one that is crucial for navigating the various
directories) is filled with all help-patches found in all search-paths, sorted
alphabetically (so directories are lost somewhere between files), and
upper-case before lower-case.
if a search-path is a child of another search path (e.g. /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem
is child of /usr/lib/pd), then both the directory ("Gem/") and it's content
(too many to list here) are listed, making the information accessible several
times (adding more confusion)
i don't know exactly where to fix the problem, but a simple solution would be
to only allow directories on the left side (and add an entry for
"<searchpaths>" (probably an entry for "all searchpaths" and separate entries
for each searchpath), rather than throwing everything together.
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>Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
Date: 2011-05-04 12:32
Message:
I'm guessing this is related to your problem with the Gem abstractions
showing up in the root of the help browser. I think the problem is
elsewhere since its not happening with gridflow or other Gem builds, so
this patch is pre-mature. As for the relative merits of sorting files and
directories, that is a bigger, more annoying question. Windows sorts
directories at the top then files after, other OS file browsers that I
have seen (mostly GNOME and Mac OS X) sort files and dirs together.
Therefore, I think this patch would only make sense if that behavior was
Windows only.
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Comment By: IOhannes m zmölnig (zmoelnig)
Date: 2011-05-03 04:47
Message:
an alternative is to separate directories from files in the root-column,
rather than mixing them together, which makes the browser somewhat
navigable (and was way easier to implement :-))
see attached patch.
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