Re: help with yelp/scrollkeeper

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Joseph Monti wrote:
> I am trying to install scrollkeeper docs for use with gnome help as part
> of a gnome2-based project I'm writing. I created the xml and omf
> following the specs from the scrollkeeper docs. I then integrated it
> into my build system using the scrollkeeper docs. Everything built and
> installed with no warnings/errors. But when I try to access the help
> from the app I get 
>
> "Unable to find the help files in either
> /usr/share/grubconf/gnome/help/grubconf/ or /usr/share/gnome/help/. 
> Please check your installation"
>
> from the gnome_help_display error->message.

How do you call gnome_help_display? or is the code available somewhere? The
/usr/share/grubconf/gnome/help/grubconf/ path looks highly bogus

> I checked and the omf and xml files are in the right place. When I do:
> 	
> 	yelp ghelp:/usr/share/gnome/help/grubconf/C/grubconf.xml
>
> I get this:
>
> warning: failed to load external entity ""
>
> and then the yelp pops up with the doc i wrote.

This is expected

> When I type just 'yelp' It says:
>
> warning: failed to load external entity ""
>
> agian and wont list any scrollkeeper docs, just man and info pages.
> Sometimes (very rare) that warning wont come up and I can actually
> navigate the gnome documentation, and have been able to get to my
> scrollkeeper docs.

This means that either you don't have scrollkeepr or that your scrollkeeper 
 database doesn't contain anything or that it is corrupt

> I am running Gnome 2.2 and scrollkeeper 0.3.11 on a Gentoo v1.4 system.
>
> This documentation has severely held back the next release of my project
> and I would really like to get this working asap.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
> - Joe
>
> p.s. I sent a message to gnome-devel-list earlier concerning this issue
> and i spent considerable time doing background checks on this issue and
> made a little more headway but again hit a roadblock.

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