Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Andreas Heppel]

On 2003-01-21 11:42:16 +0100 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:

> 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.
Looks like you're Right :) It is a kind of extended tooltips with lots of 
clicking and pressing keys involved. Probably a relict from some old 
pre-tooltip time. I have never seen Next/OpenStep and thus don't know how 
this context help worked there.
I'd prefer working tooltips anyway and a main help file for the app.
BTW, you wrote you were trying to implement tooltips. How far did you get, 
and is there anything I can do?

Cheers,
Andreas

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