Re: adding help to apps.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Here is a brief explanantion.  that macro expands to a number of menu
entries for the help menu.  What those entries are depends on a file
located at:
  $(prefix)/share/gnome/help/$(PACKAGE)/$(LANG)/topic.dat

If you only have a single translation, use LANG=C.  The help files go in
the same directory as topic.dat.  Here is an example of a topic.dat file:

gnumeric.html   Gnumeric manual 
function-reference.html Gnumeric Functions reference

Now to add this to your help menu, you add
GNOMEUIINFO_HELP("package-name") to the GnomeUIInfo array.  For testing,
if you use "gnumeric" instead of your own package name, you will get
gnumeric's help menu.

James.

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On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Lee Mallabone wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Could someone that's "in the know" please provide an example/quick
> explanation on how to add help to gnome apps?
> 
> I see that the line:
>  GNOMEUIINFO_HELP (something_here)
> 
> can be used with the gnome-apphelper, but it is far from clear how this
> relates to real help files.
> 
> I've tried to find apps that use it, but there seem to be very few that I
> have source for on my hard drive, (I grabbed gnome-core as an rpm,
> unfortunately), hence this post.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Lee.
> http://atlas.cs.york.ac.uk/~lrpm100/
> 
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