Re: Help on adding help
Re: Help on adding help
- Subject: Re: Help on adding help
- From: Jessica Kahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:35:12 -0700
Hi Gary,
I appreciate your patience; we're definitely we're working on improving
the help system. I also agree that users in need of help will have a
better experience if all apps provide help in the same way.
In terms of your wish list, all but the last two items are definitely on
our list of to-dos. Would you please clarify exactly what the last two
items mean, though? We do generate system-wide and book-wide tables of
contents already, but not indices. If you're requesting something that
we don't already have a feature request in our database for, I'd like to
get it in there.
--Jess
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 06:08 AM, Gary C Martin wrote:
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 05:47 am, Joe Schiwall wrote:
Another suggestion you may wish to consider is just opening a new
window
within your app that displays your html help file in an NSTextView. I
recently added this to one of my apps so it would display a nice
scrollable
help file with images.
I am not sure if you can have it navigate links if you have multiple
help
pages, but this might be possible, and it sure beats the time needed to
launch help viewer (which I dislike since my scroll wheel mouse
doesn't work
in it).
Thanks for the suggestion Joe. I know Help Viewer is currently quite
poor for a number of reasons but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that
the folks at Apple will give us a help system to be proud to use -
rolling our own will just confuse our application users longer term.
Just for the record my wish list for Help Viewer would include:
- faster page rendering
- standard keyboard navigation (cursor keys, <space>, <return>)
- allow text selection and copy
- allow multiple windows
- user added bookmarks
- book wide auto alphabetical index/content generation
- system wide auto alphabetical index/content generation
Regarding the actual help content, well obviously it's still in a state
of flux and overall needs some general style conformity but my main
personal gripe would be to make sure that none of the HTML docs used a
fixed text width - nothing worse than trying to read some class file
where the text falls off one side of the viewer.
Regards,
Gary
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