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

[mark_melvin@xxxxxxxx (Mark Melvin)]

OK, a little elbow grease has shown that opening a file outside of a 
plugin is actually very easy.  I guess all I need to sort out is the 
'single content producer' limitation.

Mark.

Mark Melvin wrote:

> 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.