[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: swt documentation locally

[Michael Pellaton <groups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

The whole documentation you are seeing online is shipped along with
Eclipse too. However, the files are packed into several OSGi bundles
of which each contains parts of the documentation.

The preferred way to access the doc is to use Eclipse's help center.

Or you may unpack the following jars (all located in the plugins
directory):

org.eclipse.gef.doc.isv_3.5.0.v20090422-2346.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv_3.5.0.v20090603-1530.jar
org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv_3.5.0.v20090611.jar
org.eclipse.datatools.doc.isv_1.6.0.200806091108.jar
org.eclipse.draw2d.doc.isv_3.5.0.v20090422-2346.jar

The API doc in there is a standard JavaDoc documentation and easily
browsable. The guides are there, but they lack the index and search
functionality as these functions are normally handled by the help
center.

A third option is to run the so called info center locally. For more
information about that possibility, please refer to:

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/ua_help_setup_infocenter.htm


HTH

Michael Pellaton