Re: help system

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Andreas Volz wrote:

> Am Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:26:09 -0200 schrieb Paul Pogonyshev:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a way of providing a context-sensitive
> > help in a GTK+ application?  I don't want to depend on
> > GNOME if possible.  On the other hand, I'd like the help
> > to be consistent with GNOME if that is installed.
>
> I've this problem also in a project. At configure time I try to detect
> if Gnome (gnome-help; yelp) is installed and if so I install all data
> that is needed for gnome-help. If it's not detected I install the to
> HTML converted docbook data and display it into a browser. But there're
> still some problem. I found no perfect way to invoke the users "default"
> browser. Currently I let him select one from a list and remember this
> value.
>
> If you like to know more about this I can send you more information. I
> need a lot of time to change the autotools stuff to my special
> situation.

Yes, I'd like to know more.

Actually, I tried to plug in a call to gnome_help_display() into my
application and it seems I need to use a whole lot of GNOME shit just
for this to work.  I'm strongly disappointed here.

Paul