HelpController

Shoemaker_Ronnie_A · November 1, 2006, 10:24pm

Okay, what is HTML Help (.hhp)? Or what do I use on linux to create these files? I need an easy way to create online help.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Simen Haugen [mailto:Simen@nordicstats.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 9:04 AM
To: wxPython-users@lists.wxwidgets.org
Subject: RE: [wxPython-users] HelpController

Thanks.

It was very easy to add help in the application (just a couple of lines)

wxPython is great!

-----Original Message-----
From: Günter Dannoritzer [mailto:dannoritzer@web.de]
Sent: 26. juni 2006 15:24
To: wxPython-users@lists.wxwidgets.org
Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] HelpController

Simen Haugen wrote:

I haven't found any helpcontrollers in wxPython. Where can I find this?

Hi Simen,

I just stumbled upon this helpview.py from Robin. It comes along with
the wxPython installation and is in the path:

Python24\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.6\wx\tools

Here is its docstring:

helpviewer.py -- Displays HTML Help in a wxHtmlHelpController window.

Usage:
helpviewer [--cache=path] helpfile [helpfile(s)...]

    Where helpfile is the path to either a .hhp file or a .zip file
    which contians a .hhp file. The .hhp files are the same as those
    used by Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop for creating CHM files.

Maybe that is something for you?

Cheers,

Guenter

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Robin · November 3, 2006, 4:41am

Shoemaker, Ronnie A. wrote:

Okay, what is HTML Help (.hhp)? Or what do I use on linux to create
these files? I need an easy way to create online help.

The tex2rtf utility can be used to help generate the control files as well as the html, but that means that your source needs to be in a limited subset of TeX, which is pretty awkward for most people to use.

The structure and content of the HTML Help control files is described in the docs, and as long as you don't have lots of content it's not too hard to maintain it by hand. It's also fairly easy to generate with a bit of Python scripting if you want to take that approach.

http://wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6.3/wx_wxhtml.html#helpformat

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