Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Nicolas Roard]

On 2003-01-20 11:52:19 +0100 Andreas Heppel <aheppel@web.de> wrote:


> > 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?

Err ... yes, it does. I tested it and it works beautifully ;)
Duno why I didn't thought of that. :)))
> 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?

A context sensitive help ? you mean, tooltips ?

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