Need a recipe for context sensitive help provided by a wiki

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Paul,

In the demo take a look at the AGW SuperToolTip class. It gives you the ability to produce themed tooltips with html content web links images the lot. You could possibly consider also fetching latest content if you are online.

GadgetSteve

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From: Paul Keating wxpython-users@boargules.com
Date: 12/07/2015 10:29 pm (GMT+00:00)
To: wxpython-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: [wxPython-users] Need a recipe for context sensitive help provided by a wiki

My application needs context-sensitive help. I want the help to point to a wiki, so that with any luck my users will fill in the gaps in my helpfiles.

I’ve looked at the demo but that just shows how to do tooltips. Works great, and in a web app it’s nice, but very 90s in a desktop app.

I’ve looked at HtmlHelpController, but that wants me to set up Microsoft compiled html files, which can produce very nice help, but takes hours of tedious work, and is static, not a community-supported wiki. And no example.

I’ve looked at ExtHelpController, but it has a SetViewer method with a default flags parameter of HELP_NETSCAPE which suggests it is a leftover from the last century. And no example, or indication of what other flags are available, to convince me otherwise.

I’m sure it’s possible, but I need either fuller documentation, or a recipe. It’s not obvious to a beginner how to do it.

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Much of the help I want to provide isn’t really well-suited to tooltips. That’s all very well for field-by-field hints (as in my favourite example of programmer-written help: “Name–Enter the name”). But some of the dialogues need a web page that explains it all. What I’m looking for is a way to call the help up in a browser that the user can keep open next to the application, and navigate separately under his own steam (such as to answer the question, Why do I need this dialogue anyway?)

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But some of the dialogues need a web page that explains it all. What I'm
looking for is a way to call the help up in a browser that the user can
keep open next to the application, and navigate separately under his own
steam (such as to answer the question, Why do I need this dialogue anyway?)

I think what was being suggested was that you put a link to your help wiki
in the popup -- and elsewhere.

Anyway, you can use the python webbrowser module to open the user's system
browser pointed to a given page. bind a button click or whatever for that,
and you're all set.

-CHB

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