I'm guessing you're on Mac OS X and are talking about the blue built-in Search thing. That is not useful to us since it only works for Apple help docs. Instead look further down the Help menu and click on Search to get Pd-extended's new native search, which understands patches, Pd's meta data, etc.
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Thanks, Hans... I wouldn't have guessed that is what the user is referring to.
Is there a way to hack into Apple's blue search entry? I'm guessing they have some specific design guidelines for how to hook into it and format your search to their specs. But if we could just receive the user's query to a proc that raises the window, sets our tk entry to the text, and searches it, it will fulfill all user desires. (Even if that isn't what Apple thinks we should do.)
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I looked a while back, but it seems like that search menu field is hard-coded into Apple's help system, which means help in HTML only. That is not very useful for Pd. I suppose we could include a copy of the various free Pd books in HTML format and make it searchable via that field, but that seems like a pain to maintain.
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I'm guessing you're on Mac OS X and are talking about the blue built-in Search thing. That is not useful to us since it only works for Apple help docs. Instead look further down the Help menu and click on Search to get Pd-extended's new native search, which understands patches, Pd's meta data, etc.
Thanks, Hans... I wouldn't have guessed that is what the user is referring to.
Is there a way to hack into Apple's blue search entry? I'm guessing they have some specific design guidelines for how to hook into it and format your search to their specs. But if we could just receive the user's query to a proc that raises the window, sets our tk entry to the text, and searches it, it will fulfill all user desires. (Even if that isn't what Apple thinks we should do.)
I looked a while back, but it seems like that search menu field is hard-coded into Apple's help system, which means help in HTML only. That is not very useful for Pd. I suppose we could include a copy of the various free Pd books in HTML format and make it searchable via that field, but that seems like a pain to maintain.