Re: Gnome2::Help example?

[jeremy ds volkening <volkening mailshack com>]

Okay, sorry, I figured out the issue. For future interest, I needed to
create the locale directories under the app help directory (or in this
case just the default 'C' locale). Then I fed the file argument an empty
string in the Gnome2::Help->display call. So,

<app-datadir>/gnome/help/<app-name>/C/[Mallard help files]

and then,

Gnome2::Help->display('');

I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but it works for testing
purposes.

Jeremy

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 15:10 -0500, jeremy ds volkening wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hopefully this isn't considered off-topic, but the Gnome2 bindings seem
> to be more-or-less part of gtk2-perl and the folks on this list seem to
> know what they're talking about.
>
> I've been working on making a few of my programs conform to the GNOME
> Human Interface Guidelines, and one step has been to implement the
> Help->Contents menuitem to open up documentation in Yelp. I've been
> trying to implement this with Gnome2::Help, but keep running into
> problems and can't find sufficient documentation. I have made it this
> far:
>
> ..
> use Gnome2;
> Gnome2::Program->init (
>       $PROG_ID,
>       $PROG_VERSION,
>       'libgnomeui',
>         'app-datadir'=>'/opt/GLOC',
> );
>
> ..and later, a signal_connect to the proper menu item calling:
>
> sub {
>   Gnome2::Help->display('index.page')
> }
>
> but I'm still getting errors. Now it's: 
>
> "Unable to find help paths /opt/GLOC/gnome/help/gloc
> or /usr/share/gnome/help/gloc"
>
> I created the apparently needed gnome/help/gloc structure under my app
> directory, and moved my documentation files (written in Mallard:
> http://www.projectmallard.org) to it, but I still get the same error. I
> don't really want to put the files in /usr/share/gnome/... yet as the
> program is in early development, and it seems to be looking in my own
> directory anyway. Does anyone have advice or a working example? My docs
> open up just fine using yelp directly, but is it a problem with using
> Mallard instead of DocBook or do I just have something set up wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
>
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