Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Andreas Heppel]

Hi,
On 2003-01-20 08:33:55 +0100 Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just released an early version of HelpViewer, available on :
> http://info.xdev.org/projets/helpviewer
>
> HelpViewer could be used as an online help viewer for GNUstep apps.
> Currently it miss many features (like indexation and search) but rendering
> and navigation should be ok.
But looks very promising so far :) I've been waiting for exactly something 
like this.

> Notes
> =====
>
> HelpViewer register itself as a reader for "xlp" format, which is a simple
> formats inspired by html. In order to automatically call HelpViewer when
> clickin on the "help ..." submenu, you need to change NSHelpManager
> in gnustep sources, around line 95, the line :
> NSString *file = [mb pathForResource: help ofType: @"rtf"];
>
> by :
>
> NSString *file = [mb pathForResource: help ofType: @"xlp"];
>
> By the way, how does the help system is intended to work, for international
> support ?
Isn't this inherently implemented in pathForResource:ofType: ? I think this 
methods checks my languange sundirectories in myapp.app/Resources for 
appropriate language dependent stuff, doesn't it?
What I'd be interested in more, is the question how to set up a context 
sensitive help for certain UI elements. To be more precise I seem to have 
understood the API, but would like to know how an application is supposed to 
reach 'context help mode'. Will I have certain buttons in my panels or 
should there be a menu entry or how else is this supposed to be in *Step?

Cheers,
Andreas

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