[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Centralized Eclipse Help-System

["Christophe Fondacci" <cfondacci@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot !
Exactly what I was looking for.

Indeed, contextual features are not supported.

But wouldn't it be possible to mix remote and local help? You would though 
publish your help plugin locally and remotly. The local plugin would then 
only be used for contextual help whereas your central help would provide 
help contents. The local help may be older than the centralized help, but 
would still be able to provide contextual help...

> From what I have read on how to configure remote help, it seems not possible 
either... What about an evolution of this in a future Eclipse release 
(either to support remote contextual help or to allow a help configuration 
which could mix local and remote resources) ?

Christophe.

"C. Hager" <ch.hager@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de 
news:ed9aab4a22c79313232b4782b5bd7f8a$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello Christophe,
>
> Running help in Infocenter-Mode basically means running your help as a 
> standalone rcp-application on a server. Your RCP clients can then merge 
> this remote help into their local help.
>
> Info on how to run the helpsystem in Infocenter-Mode can be found under 
> the following links
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipsehelp/
>
> http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/ua_help_setup_infocenter.htm
>
> Once the Infocenter is running you can tell your application to use remote 
> help by adding those lines
>
> org.eclipse.help.base/remoteHelpOn=true
> org.eclipse.help.base/remoteHelpHost=<help-server>
> org.eclipse.help.base/remoteHelpPath=/help
>
> to your plugin_customization.ini file.
>
> The problem with that is that it seems to be impossible to reference 
> remote help pages from the contexts.xml