Re: [platform-help-dev] embedded help for web applications for InfoCente

[birsan@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Erik,

If I understand your proposal correctly, the Task Assistant Page works a
lot like the context sensitive help (infopop, in eclipse help terms), with
the exception it is not triggered by F1, but it shown at all times. So,
instead of registering topics to application pages, this could be done by
registering a context id to each application page. All that's needed then
is to render the content of an infopop as html. Clicking on a related topic
inside the task asssistant page would then launch the help viewer opened to
that topic.

-Dorian



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Hi, Eclipse Help Gurus:

We're contemplating embedding help topics within a web application window.
We'd like to pursue a strategy that will not only be valid for Eclipse
2.0.1 but also Eclipse 2.1 and (one hopes) beyond.

For InfoCenter Eclipse 2.0.1, the best approach seems to be to extend the
Eclipse help web application.  Here is a more detailed explanation of that
approach:

    (See attached file: HelpEmbedded.zip)

Will this strategy work with the design planned for 2.1?

We also have a working prototype that can be installed on Tomcat +
InfoCenter Eclipse 2.0.1, if that would clarify our approach.


Thanks in advance,


Erik Hennum
ehennum@xxxxxxxxxx





#### HelpEmbedded.zip has been removed from this note on September 17 2002
by Dorian Birsan