[news.eclipse.platform.ua] Re: Link to a file outside the plugins folder

[mark_melvin@xxxxxxxx (Mark Melvin)]

Thanks, Curtis.  This is what I was playing with yesterday.  I guess the 
problem is, all of my doc plugins currently declare a binding on the 
'org.eclipse.help.dynamic' content producer and it looks like you can only 
have one producer per plugin.  Hmm...maybe I could isolate it in another 
plugin and contribute to anchors.

Do you know if there is an example anywhere of a Java-based content 
producer?  What class is behind 'org.eclipse.help.dynamic'?  I've been 
looking but haven't been able to find the extension declared anywhere.

Thanks,
Mark.

Chris Goldthorpe wrote:

> A content producer would be the best way to do this. Anything you can 
> write in Java can be done in a content producer. As you have probably 
> already figured out the paths in the URLs used by the help system are 
> always interpreted as referring to a plug-in and do not represent 
> physical locations on the file system.

> Mark Melvin wrote:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I was wondering if it was at all possible to render content from a file 
> > that is located outside of any plugin.  For example, if I wanted my TOC 
> > to refer to file that was located alongside the eclipse.exe executable 
> > in the root 'eclipse' folder, is there any way to do this - either via 
> > dynamic content producers, filters, or even Javascript?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark.