I am referring "building commercial quality plugins" book.(chapter 15 i.e. implementing help) and “eclipse Rich Client Platform “ book (chapter 13 Adding Help and chapter 15 Implementing Help) for the implementation of story – 38 ie, File format help.
I will develop File format help by creating a new plugin project ,where I select custom plug-in wizard and after that I select Help table of contents options , this will create default table of contents file ,to which I am going to link the html help files.
I want to know that whether we have to create a separate html page for each command or group them into some pages.
Also I want to add helpAction which is of type IWorkbenchAction to “ApplicationActionBarAdvisor" class which is present at "com.nxp.timedoctor.product.workbench" plug-in. I will register and instantiate the help contents action by using ActionFactory and register(). Where ActionFactory is a handy preconfigured actions which is defined in the UI workbench.
TOC(table of contents) which are defined in the help plug-in will give a link to HTML files which contains the information’s.
Also I will add this action to the help menu in the fillMenuBar() which is also present in the same class.
And in the plugin.xml of help plug-in I like to add the fallowing plug-in org.eclipse.lucene , org.eclipse.help.appserver, org.eclipse.help.ui, org.eclipse.help.base, org.eclipse.help.webapp, org.eclipse.ui.forms, and org.eclipse.tomcat .
And then in the workbench.product which is defined in the com.nxp.timedoctor.feature. workbench plug-in I would like to add this help plug-in in the configuration page.So that the Help plug-in will be bundled with Workbench Product.
Usually help plug-in will display a default help page, which contains information regarding how to use eclipse, this page will be get replaced by specifying required page name which is to be specified in the plugin_customization.ini , which is present in the com.nxp.timedoctor.product.workbench. This plug-in will also work in eclipse IDE also.
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I am referring "building commercial quality plugins" book.(chapter 15 i.e. implementing help) and “eclipse Rich Client Platform “ book (chapter 13 Adding Help and chapter 15 Implementing Help) for the implementation of story – 38 ie, File format help.
I will develop File format help by creating a new plugin project ,where I select custom plug-in wizard and after that I select Help table of contents options , this will create default table of contents file ,to which I am going to link the html help files.
I want to know that whether we have to create a separate html page for each command or group them into some pages.
Also I want to add helpAction which is of type IWorkbenchAction to “ApplicationActionBarAdvisor" class which is present at "com.nxp.timedoctor.product.workbench" plug-in. I will register and instantiate the help contents action by using ActionFactory and register(). Where ActionFactory is a handy preconfigured actions which is defined in the UI workbench.
TOC(table of contents) which are defined in the help plug-in will give a link to HTML files which contains the information’s.
Also I will add this action to the help menu in the fillMenuBar() which is also present in the same class.
And in the plugin.xml of help plug-in I like to add the fallowing plug-in org.eclipse.lucene , org.eclipse.help.appserver, org.eclipse.help.ui, org.eclipse.help.base, org.eclipse.help.webapp, org.eclipse.ui.forms, and org.eclipse.tomcat .
And then in the workbench.product which is defined in the com.nxp.timedoctor.feature. workbench plug-in I would like to add this help plug-in in the configuration page.So that the Help plug-in will be bundled with Workbench Product.
Usually help plug-in will display a default help page, which contains information regarding how to use eclipse, this page will be get replaced by specifying required page name which is to be specified in the plugin_customization.ini , which is present in the com.nxp.timedoctor.product.workbench. This plug-in will also work in eclipse IDE also.
Sounds good, go ahead with it.
A separate html file for each command may be a good idea, easy to turn it into a reference manual that way.