Hi all,
The masochist in me just insisted on developing actual help documentation
with my little app. That may have been a tactical faux pas.
wxHtmlHelpController seems to be my first choice. But so far I haven't been
able to get a single thing in the docs to work. There are a lot of places in
the docs telling me to look in the samples directory under docs/html for
examples, but my 2.4.2.4u wxPython/samples (or any other wxPython) directory
doesn't have a html sub-directory, so I can't find any examples.
Any attempt to initialize wxHtmlHelpController errors out with "global name
xxx is not defined".
I can initialize wxFileSystem(), but any attempt at
wxFileSystem.AddHandler(wxZipFSHandler) errors out with:
"class wxFileSystem has no attribute AddHandler", and THAT's kind of a
show-stopper.
Any advice on how to get this ball rolling? So far, the wxWindows docs
aren't helping much.
I'm using Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop to build the .hhp, .hhc, and .hhk
files.
Thanks.
Any advice on how to get this ball rolling? So far, the wxWindows docs
aren't helping much.
Have a look at my project http://bitpim.sf.net (you don't need a cell
phone to try it). It has help on Windows, Linux and Mac.
I'm using Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop to build the .hhp, .hhc, and .hhk
files.
The stuff that wraps Microsoft's help (CHM) has not been wrapped in wxPython
so you can't use it. You can however use the wxWindows help format (which
is pretty much the help project and html files zipped up and with an
extension of .htb).
Look for the setuphelp function in this file:
I actually use HelpBlocks for authoring my help. HelpBlocks is written by
Julian Smart who is also the originator of wxWindows. He gave me a free
license since my project is open source.
I also did some other nice things such as having a copy of the help on the
web http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/testhelp/ which requires using macros etc
in the infrastructure provided by helpblocks. From the CVS above, you
will see a batch file named makehelp.bat that builds the help and does
some processing, and the help source files are in the help subdirectory.
Roger
Roger Binns wrote:
Have a look at my project http://bitpim.sf.net (you don't need a cell
phone to try it). It has help on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Look for the setuphelp function in this file:
BitPim download | SourceForge.net
Thanks, Roger - that gave me all I needed to get my own help file up and
running.
I actually use HelpBlocks for authoring my help. HelpBlocks is written by
Julian Smart who is also the originator of wxWindows. He gave me a free
license since my project is open source.
I also tried out the HelpBlocks demo and it's so much better than the MS
product I thank you for the suggestion.