Re: wxT/Qt framework help book (was Fwd: Re: Last call ...)

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> [Sorry, that should have been patch #707 in the last post, i.e.,]
>
> I've placed a patch for wxT HelpBook and Qt-Assistant on SourceForge:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/707
>
> which should give anyone interested something to do on New Year's Day.
>
> There are also a couple screenshots of the two help book windows after
> the gnuplot.htb file and the gnuplot.qch and gnuplot.qhc files are made
> and installed.

Thank you very much. This is an excellent addition (that I have been
waiting for for a long time already and also tried to implement
myself, but gave up too soon) and I would be extremely happy if it
could end up in 5.0.

(I would suggest releasing RC4 with this addition though since
packagers are expected to modify their build flows slightly and some
totally unexpected problems might arise there.)

The "next level" would be to allow users to configure "help foo" to
automatically open the help book, but that doesn't need to be done
now.

I have problems with an out-of-source build of help files for Qt, but
wxt help works very nicely.

One tiny problem: when I ran help in wxt for the first time, the
dialogue window appeared. During that time the console was completely
unresponsive. But maybe that's the expected behaviour anyway.

Mojca