Re: Help suckage for GNOME2

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

mån 2002-03-04 klockan 00.34 skrev Sander Vesik:
> On 3 Mar 2002, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> > Is this inside libgnomeui? I was under the impression that applications
> > should only add one menu item saying ("Help") or something which should
> > call gnome_help_display ("ghelp:/usr/share/gnome/help/....");
> > 
> > This should in turn fire up Yelp (with 'yelp ghelp:...').
> > 
> > So why is libgnomeui parsing TOC-files? Or is this in your application?
> > 
> 
> This sounds like it assumes only one place to bring help up from, inc. no
> context sensitive help (like say hitting f1 in a dialog box and getting
> help about it). Otherwise you probbaly need to know what say 
> 	help-> myapp -> complax_dialog_box

Hmm.. the application writer know where in his document the complex
dialog box is described (and should add a reference to it in the
document), the he can call:

gnome_help_display ("ghelp:/MyApp?complex_dialog_box") (don't remember
exact syntax, is described in jrb's mail about help uri's.

> > I'm getting ready to release Yelp 0.3 which has the last outstanding
> > feature (index searching) implemented. So from now on I can spend time
> > on debugging Yelp and working together with someone on making things
> > work together with the GNOME help system.
> 
> oh, cool 8-) One obvious starting point might be the author of the API 8-)

Yes, I think Jonathan was the one who did this, do you have time to go
through this?

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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