Re: [Springframework-rcp-dev] Advice on JavaHelp

[Benoit X. <bx...@ob...>]

Peter,

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This works beautifully, many thanks for providing the code and =
guidelines
for a view.

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As for feedback, it seems that an exception will be raised every time a
formId.propertyName is not found in the HelpSet. This is a bit brutal,
unfortunately I have not found a way to actually check whether an entry
exists or not and disable the F1 accordingly. It would be a most useful
thing to be able to do.

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Finally, could any of you share your experience with a decent authoring
tool? Which one do you use? (we would like to be able to produce a
PDF/manual as well as the HelpSet from the same source).

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We=92ve found 3 main candidates:

-          Adobe RobotHelp (expensive, $999) HYPERLINK
"http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/"http://www.adobe.com/products/ro=
boh
elp/

-          HelpBreeze $249, HYPERLINK
"http://www.solutionsoft.com/javahelp.htm"http://www.solutionsoft.com/jav=
ahe
lp.htm=20

-          Helen 2 $169, HYPERLINK
"http://www.software7.biz/"http://www.software7.biz/=20

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Anyone used these?

Is there another one that could handle both documents and JavaHelp =
creation?

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Many thanks!

Kind regards from London,

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Benoit

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Peter De Bruycker
Sent: 18 September 2007 14:30
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Subject: Re: [Springframework-rcp-dev] Advice on JavaHelp

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Benoit,

to have context sensitive help in a view you can follow this method:

1. create your help html files
2. create entries in your <xxxxxx>.jhm file
3. in your view.createControl() method: get a reference to your helpset,
create a helpbroker, and enable help on individual components in your =
view.=20
4. to have a help button in your view: create a button with a help icon,
then call HelpBroker.enableHelpOnButton()


Some spring-rich specific class wrapping HelpBroker should still be =
created,
so the helpset and broker can be reused by the views and the
JavaHelpFormComponentInterceptorFactory.=20
If you'd like to, you can create this class, and contribute it to the
project ;-)


hope this helps,

Peter

On 9/18/07, Benoit Xhenseval <HYPERLINK
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Hi *,

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I'd like to benefit from our experience here. Have you developed some
JavaHelp?

If so, which tool did you find easiest to keep a "manual" as well as a
javahelp export?

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How did you integrate it in a SpringRC application? I have used the
HelpContentCommand:

org.springframework.richclient.command.support.HelpContentsCommand

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This is useful, however, has anyone done some Context-sensitive help? Is
there any support in Spring RC for it? An "F1" key?

Like the ability to specify a help path for a view or a field?  We have =
the
.label, .caption, .icon, .image fields etc  it would be great to add a
.helpPath or something similar with an overlay=85

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Any suggestion, comment, experience, code would be welcomed!

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Many thanks, as usual,

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Benoit.

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