Re: [platform-help-dev] why does the help window have two toolbars?

[konradk@xxxxxxxxxx]

It is easy to implement back and forward buttons in HTML, but we decided
not to have them for the following reasons:

On non-Windows platform we do not have an embedded browser, and help is
viewed in Mozilla or Netscape browsers that have a back and forward buttons
of their own.  Having these buttons also inside HTML area would not make
sense.

On Windows, it is possible for a document to have a link that will result
in the whole frameset being replaced with other contents.  At this point
there would be no way to restore help HTML frameset as the buttons would be
wiped out from the view, if they were inside the HTML view.  Having buttons
on the SWT frame is a must.

Konrad Kolosowski
Eclipse Help System



                                                                                                                              
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Hi, Ecliptans:

Probably this issue has come up before, but I couldn't find it in the mail
archives or a search of the newsgroup.

Why does the help viewer window in framework Eclipse help (and I presume,
standalone Eclipse help) have the toolbar with forward / back in the
containing window as well as a DHTML toolbar in the window contents?

I would have expected that forward / back could be implemented pretty
easily with JavaScript in the DHTML toolbar.  There would be also be
significant benefits to adding to the display space by eliminating the
window's toolbar and in offering a single mechanism to modify the help UI.

Was there a reason it wasn't possible to implement forward / back in the
window content toolbar?


Thanks in advance,


Erik Hennum
ehennum@xxxxxxxxxx


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