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Grey out help/reference for non-"helpful" palette objects #1209

Open theslyprofessor opened 1 year ago

theslyprofessor commented 1 year ago

I teach PlugData to community college students and they are confused as to why many of the palette objects in the sidebar don't have help/reference docs when they click them. I think those options should be greyed out if they aren't relevant (aka, abstractions).

timothyschoen commented 1 year ago

This would be nice, the problem is that the searching for helpfiles happens after you click the help button. Doing it when right-clicking would mean that opening the right-click menu will become a lot slower. How long it takes to find helpfiles depends on how many files you have in your path, so if you have a lot, loading the right-click menu could take a while.

It is possible to do this for the "Reference" part though, I'll look into that!