[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: documentation references in context help

[Michael Illgner <michael.illgner@xxxxxxxx>]

Dara Meinhard wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> try the following - it should works under eclipse 3.1 M7:
>
> First create your "help plugin" contains only your html-help-files  
> (possibly as .zip),
> your plugin.xml including the [org.eclipse.help.context] extension
> and 1 to * context.xml files.
>
> The plugin-attribute of the [org.eclipse.help.context] extension has to  
> referenz to
> the plugin id of your plugin contains the UI-Javaclass displaying your  
> help (view,
> editor or anything else).
> You should create a new [org.eclipse.help.context] extension for every 
> new  plugin.
> (Sample: [org.eclipse.platform.doc.user])
>
> Inside your context.xml files you have to set a context-id.
> Referenz to this ID when you set the help to your ui-javaclass.
> => PlatformUI.getWorkspace().getHelpSystem().setHelp(getControl(),  
> contextId).
> (Sample: [org.eclipse.editors.text.TextEditorPreferencPage])
>
> This shoul work...
Ok,
this works, but how do I specify the href's in the context.xml, when the 
html-file is located in another plugin ?
Using a path like "../myplugin.id/guide.html" seems to work, but whats 
happens if I use different plugin directories.

greetings
Michael