[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Help Files Offline

[Lee Anne <nospam_kowalskilee@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nic.

I went to TI's web site and saw that CCE is free, so I downloaded it and 
installed it, so I can see what you might be seeing.

After looking at what is shown when I select the menu items 
Help->Dynamic Help and Help->Help Contents, I believe that Denis's 
posting is correct in where the problem lies.

When I select Help->Help Contents, it opens to a local URL that is 
constructed such as http://127.0.0.1:<port>/...

The Eclipse help system sets up its own network connection to the local 
machine. That means that it wants to connect to your own local machine = 
127.0.0.1.

When you moved to keep your machine offline, did you also disable all 
network connection capability in the operating system?

Besides following Denis's recommendation to search for the 'hosts' file 
on your Windows machine, you might also try this:
a. Use menu Window->Preferences, to open the Preferences window.
b. Expand Help on the left hand side, and select "Help Server".
c. In the "Host name or IP address" field, enter the term:
localhost
d. Click Apply and OK.
e. Exit the workbench.
f. Restart the workbench.
g. Try the menu Help->Help Contents.
In this situation, the help system will try a network connection to 
http://localhost:<port>/... instead of 127.0.0.1

Hope this helps,
Lee Anne

Nic Bleeker wrote:
> I am an engineer doing product development using the Texas Instruments 
> MSP430 microcontroller.  Their software development platform is called 
> Code Composer Essentials (v3) and it is based on the Eclipse 3.2 IDE. My 
> computer that is used for design purposes is no longer connected to the 
> internet, because for several months it was being targeted and paralyzed 
> by hackers, in spite of the best anti-virus and anti-spy ware products 
> around. To keep my system stable and make progress with my work I have 
> to keep it off-line. For this reason, when I use TIïs CCE, and I call up 
> the help files, it tries to connect to your website for on-line help. I 
> am not familiar with your system and therefore need documentation which 
> I can download and use offline on my development pc.  The software 
> coding is in Assembler and C/C++. I would appreciate it if you would 
> help me in this matter.