Re: Creating of help

[Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt>]

> How can I create help for my Gtk program? Is there any program for
> creating help? Which format is used for it?

The whole purpose of gtk is to provide low level 
widgets that can be combined in many different 
ways to build powerfull applications.

So there is no gtk help widget, I don't know about gnome.

Of course you can use the gtktext to create your own helps.

The level of sophistication deppends of you:

you can read documentation from .txt files, or
from .xml files, for example. The second approach
is certainly more powerfull and certainly more
complex, you will need a xml parser, etc...

you can have text only or a whole lot of widgets
and complex devices and tools in your help system, 
it really deppends of you.

There's no size fits all.

Think as a user, not as a programmer, ask the
opinion of other people who would be willing to
use your app, how they would like the help sytem?

Ask people around, who don't know nothing about
your app, to try to use it: what are the main
difficulties to them?

Don't cater for beginners only: there are
things that are usefull the first time but
can be very annoying for the experienced
user.

Carlos