Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-01-21 11:14:48 +0100 Andreas Heppel <aheppel@web.de> wrote:

> The problem in using HelpViewer for this kind of thing is that you would have 
> to do it yourself completely, since there is no GNUstep support. If you replace 
>  NSResponder's method - (void) helpRequested: (NSEvent*)theEvent you could call 
> HelpViewer from here (maybe using DO).You could do this using  a new category  
> for NSResponder that replaces the original implementation of this method.
> If HelpViewer now provided a DO method to display some text bound to a tag you 
> are there. The only thing needed is a meaningful identifier for the UI 
> elements. If in doubt one can set up a map for this (or misuse NSHelpManager's 
> contextHelpForObject ;-) .

Well in fact I didn't understood the context help working that way. I thought 
that we could pop up helpviewer (loading a specified
help file), indicate a label id, and helpviewer just go to the label (going to 
the right
page and scrolling the text if needed).
But this context help is more a sort of "extended" tooltips imho; and I think 
it shouldn't
be the job of helpviewer then, but gnustep. On a side note it doesn't seems that
context help is heavily used.

--
Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com>
http://info.xdev.org/projets/waiho
the linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it 
yourself'. That's it.