[news.eclipse.platform.ua] Re: Dynamic Help

[Chris Goldthorpe <cgold@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The dynamic help section is based on a search for terms which are 
derived from the context. For example of you were in the Problems view 
it would search for "problems view" and match any page which contained 
the word view and the word problems. We had a lot of complaints about 
the results in the dynamic help view not being relevant and very few 
people understood what it was trying to do. As a result in Eclipse 3.5 
the dynamic help section has been replaced by a link to search for more 
results.

Eclipse 3.4 does show the search terms used so you can make sure the 
same words occur in your documents so you get a search hit, but as I 
said this section will go away in Eclipse 3.5.

Alex Haag wrote:
> > And what is the Dynamic Help in the Dynamic Help window good for?
>
> Hi there,
>
> I just added context sensitive help to my Application. I'm just at the 
> beginning so I dont' really have content in the html-files (they are 
> just dummy-placeholders in order to see how things work!)
>
> I managed to get context sensitive for my views and editors 
> ('about'-section of dynamic help, see attachment).
>
> But there is another section 'Dynamic Help' which I was not able to 
> fill. Could anybody please give me a hint how I can get content in this 
> section?
>
> I saw that this section is filled with some sort of search-results (eg. 
> when showing dynamic help for 'java editor', 'package explorer' etc.)
>
> Any help, hints or code is deeply welcome
>
> Thanks in advance Alex
>
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