| RE: [platform-help-dev] Remote Help |
OK... Take a look at the attatched screenshot It's my personal documentation plugin. Thinking in Java A Websphere Redbook Servlet Specification Embedded Adobe PDF I also have an API Help plugin 450MB -> 60 MB (zipped), and again I can navigate many different API's in seconds!!! All in the Workbench paradigm on Windows I can't fault it!, this functionality could just as well be spun off into a Personal Help Plugin. -----Original Message----- From: platform-help-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-help-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of klicnik@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:54 PM To: platform-help-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [platform-help-dev] Remote Help <Mark wrote> Please don't drop the internal OLE embedded help system 'totally' in favour of an external browser. For me having a help system in the 'same context' of the workbench is fantastic, and is fits well with the vision of the workbench paradigm. </Mark wrote> The current approach for exposing the help function in the workbench is actually a hybrid ... many of the help "control" functions will be integrated into the workbench (launch, F1, search, "infopop", etc), so the general way you trigger things will be through the workbench. Certainly for F1, the workbench "context" is carried over to help. The external browser will be used for the actual display of the help content and navigation within the content. We have opted for this approach because there are problems with the current support even on Win (eg. try hitting F1 in a workbench wizard that supports contextual help, or try following a help tutorial that involves steps using wizards/ modal dialogs). [also see prior post to this mailing list "Notes from 10/30 help review"] I think you raise a valid observation that on platforms like Win we could probably do better than just launching an external browser. Perhaps using the embedded control in a way that can be docked into the workbench, or torn-off into an external window (without the modality issues) would do the trick. We should consider something like that as an option for platforms that have embedded controls, but only after we have the base function up and running. _______________________________________________ platform-help-dev mailing list platform-help-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-help-dev
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