Re: Help Book in XCode
Re: Help Book in XCode
- Subject: Re: Help Book in XCode
- From: J Nozzi <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:40:06 -0500
On Feb 14, 2004, at 7:51 PM, Daniel Todd Currie wrote:
I learned to get help working by mucking around in the iTunes.app
bundle. I'd recommend the same for you.
Thanks, Daniel. I opened the iTunes bundle as suggested and took a
look at its layout. When I opened my own for comparison, I noticed two
things:
For one thing, the Info.plist file was for some reason called
"AppName.plist" (my app's name). This and other strange things happened
after I updated from PB to XCode. It worked like this just fine, but I
renamed it to Info.plist just to be consistent. That didn't help.
For another thing, all the HTML files were in the root of the
'resources' folder, not the subfolder I thought I'd created. I
discovered that I'd dragged the folder containing my help files into
the resources group in XCode and created a 'group', thinking this would
make a real folder. The thought was in the back of my head that this
seemed wrong. Of course, I had forgotten to verify that.
To correct this, I deleted all the files and references from the
project then dragged the help folder and told XCode to create folder
references and not to copy the files into the project. Magic. ;-)
This critical step was overlooked and of course was my downfall. I
think the whole idea of creating 'groups' without having an option to
create a real folder is a bit of a problem. It's confusing to the
uninitiated. ;-) This would be fine, though, if there were some GUI
"Help" elements to make this process more obvious. Just some ideas I'll
forward along to the XCode development team. Yeah, it's a no-brainer
once you know it, but getting there can be difficult.
- J
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