[platform-help-dev] Re: platform-help-dev digest, Vol 1 #37 - 1 msg

["Brian Gillan" <bgillan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding:

>From: birsan@xxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:13:45 -0400
>Reply-To: platform-help-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx

>If you are reasonably familiar with eclipse and the eclipse help system,
>you can probably make sense of the quick write-up on how to install
>standalone help at
>http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-help-home/standalone.html


I followed these installation steps to obtain a stripped-down version of
the Eclipse run-time (this was with the 4/16 M5 build). Rather than trying
to invoke the help from an application, I went directly to Step 7 and tried
to bring up the help by:
set PATH=%PATH%;d:\jre\bin;
java -classpath D:\EclipseStandAlone\plugins\org.eclipse.help\help.jar
org.eclipse.help.standalone.Help

When I try to tun this, I get the message:

Problem occured initializing Eclipse

However, it does present a little application window with "Conext help" and
"help" buttons. Clicking on the "context help" button yields:

Could not display  context:org.eclipse.help.ui.f1Shell

And clicking on the "help" button yields:

Could not display help: null

I did copy my own plugin directory into the "stand-alone" structure, so I
know there's content to be served.

Am I doing something wrong?

One of the appications we're looking at using this for is shipping just
help information, ion which case it would actually be integrated into an
application. So, we do need a way to invoke the help external to an
application context.

Thanks, Brian