This mailing list is for discussions
pertaining to help system development, rather than help system implementation.
These kinds of questions should be asked on the eclipse.platform
newsgroup.
However, since I think I can help I
will answer it here.
You were correct to bundle your common
resources in a plugin by itself - this is certainly the approach I would
take. The reason that the contents frame of the help is displaying
the common plug-in to users is - I suspect - because you are calling the
org.eclipse.help.toc extension point and specifying the toc for that plugin
as primary="true".
You don't actually need to declare any
extension point in your common resources plug-in. Providing the plug-in
has a unique and valid ID, you will still be able to draw upon the resources
contained in this plug-in by calling them using your common plug-in's ID.
Create a simple project to contain your
common resources. You plugin.xml will look something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<plugin
name = "Common Resources
Plug-in"
id = "com.peregrine.common.doc"
version = "1.0.0"
provider-name = "Peregrine">
</plugin>
That's all you need. You can then
organise your images, _javascript_, and so on, inside directories within
this plug-in.
Call the files in this plug-in by using
the following syntax:
<img src=""
align="right" alt="Image">
Obviously, the number of ../s will depend
upon how deep you are within the current plug-in.
Hope this helps,
Steve
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Jason Elliott <jason.elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-help-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
[platform-help-dev] Where
to store common files, such as css, js, images
Our help system contains about 25 plugins
and 3500 help files. This design requires us to store some CSS files, _javascript_
files and images in a "common" location.
Can someone close to eclipse suggest where
the best location for such files to exist?
Our first attempt was to store the "common"
files in a plugin by itself. However, the Contents frame of the Help presents
this "common" plugin to the Help users.
Another thought was to create a fragment
connected to "org.eclipse.help".