My current app - call it Thing - has online help, shown to the user
by unpacking into a standard directory from the jar embedded in the
Thing.app directory, and loading it into the default browser. This
cross-platform stuff has to stay, but I'd like to take advantage of
Apple's Help for OSX users. Can't seem to make it go though.
As I understand it, the steps to get a single help page viewable are
these:
1) Write an html help page in the appropriate style i.e. with
<meta name="AppleTitle" content="Thing Help"/>
in the header. Call it index.html
2) Put index.html in the directory:
Thing.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Thing Help
to Thing.app/Contents/Info.plist FYI, the CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
is set to English, presumably by the JarBundler when Thing.app was
originally created.
4) Open the application:
open Thing.app
Thing works as nicely as ever, but with no sign of any online help.
Google provides sparse and inconsistent advice (mostly for early
versions of OSX). Apple Developer documentation seems to say that
java and cocoa apps do not require any help registration step,
further than the Info.plist adjustment. But perhaps I have
misunderstood that?
For reference, this box is running OSX 10.4.4 with Java 1.4.2.
I am not going to start using ProjectBuilder just to get this going -
the project has to be compilable on a non-Mac.
That all said, most likely I've just forgotten to do something
obvious. Any suggestions as to what?
Thanks,
Will
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