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Help fixes

Albert Gräf requested to merge (removed):help-fixes into master

This merge requests addresses various issues in the help system I noticed during courses last week:

  • Added a missing data file for the array-object-help.pd patch, as well as missing oscformat and oscparse help patches from vanilla. (Note that the latter two aren't pddpified yet, but it's certainly better to have non-pddp help patches than none at all, and these two objects are important because they provide a simple way to interface with OSC without relying on externals.)

  • Replaced the antique non-pddp metro.pd help patch in 5.reference with the latest version from vanilla which has all the latest information about alternative tempo units which aren't in the official (pddp) metro-help.pd patch yet. (We should really merge this information into metro-help.pd some time, but I don't have the time to do that right now, so it's nice to have the vanilla help patch available through the help browser at least.)

  • Updated the help-intro.pd patch in 5.reference with the latest version from vanilla. The one distributed with purr-data was really quite out of date. I tried my best to keep the relevant changes in the pd-l2ork/purr-data version of the patch, but other than that it's the vanilla version now with all the latest goodies in it (except the delread4~ synonym for vd~ which hasn't made it into pd-l2ork/purr-data yet).

  • Added a "Quick Reference" option to the Help menu which launches the help-intro.pd patch. This does essentially the same as vanilla's "List of objects" help menu option, just using a more suggestive name. But it's not just to make former vanilla users happy; it's really useful to have this readily available as a quick and structured overview of what built-in objects Pd has on offer. While the help-intro patch is of course available through the help browser, it isn't easy to find there unless you already know what you're looking for, and we can't simply add it to the help browser's home screen since it's not a directory.

  • While I was at it, I also fixed a typo in the help menu definition which had a wrong translation for the tooltip of the help.manual option.

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