[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Need help with the eclipse standalone he

[bucher_jenny@xxxxxx (Jenny)]

Hi Lee Anne,

I try to explain it ;)

to keep my programm small and easy to update, I would like to avoid 
duplicated html-help-pages and use linking instead. To do that, I put the 
same href in two different toc files. If I do so, the help window shows 
the right page and opens the tree(i know, its not really a tree but it 
looks like a tree) at the right position, but the path on top of the html 
page ist wrong.
Thats why I tried "link_to". With link_to the path is not right but it 
would be okay, but it does not open the tree.
In a documentation I was reading, that displayHelpResource can hand 
keywords like "key=value&key=value" over.
Maybe I can tell the help system to search for the html page with this 
unique toc and not just to open the first fitting html page.

I hope you can understand now what I mean and my problem...


Lee Anne wrote:

> Hi Jenny,

> I'm adding the eclipse.platform.ua newsgroup to this thread.

> That newsgroup includes a focus on the Eclipse help system, and folks 
> who hang out there might see ways to help you.

> What do you mean by "tried to use the same href twice"? The hrefs in 
> your code snippet below look unique. Do you mean the same HTML file is 
> in two different toc.xml files?

> I'm not sure that your displayHelpResource parameters are proper. Can 
> you describe what you expect to see displayed in the help system from 
> executing that command?

> Best regards,
> Lee Anne


> Jenny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use the eclipse native help system and encountered a problem:
> > i want to use a html page at two different places, but don't know how to 
> > do this.
> >
> > yet i tried to use the same href twice but the help don't show the right 
> > path and i tried link_toc but than he don't show the actual tree on the 
> > left; so neither one with satisfying success
> >
> > For Example:
> >
> > <toc label="gettingstarted" link_to="toc.xml#gettingstarted">  
> > <topic label="maintopic"  href="html/gettingstarted/maintopic.html">   
> > </topic> 
> >   <topic label="subtopic"> <link toc="tocreference.xml"/>  
> > </topic> </toc>
> >
> > <toc label="reference" link_to="toc.xml#reference">   
> > <topic label="subtopic" href="html/reference/subtopic.html">   
> > </topic> </toc>
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getHelpSystem().displayHelpResource("toc=/HelpBook/tocgettingstarted.xml&topic=/HelpBook/html/reference/subtopic.html"); 
> > Can anybody help me?