Re: How to open help bundle?
Re: How to open help bundle?
- Subject: Re: How to open help bundle?
- From: Jessica Kahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 08:49:06 -0700
Hello,
My apologies, because some of our documentation has caused some
confusion on this point. You do not need to put your help content into a
.help bundle, and in fact, it's not supported. What you do need to do is
organize your help content as a standard (Mac OS 9-style) help book, and
then put the various localizations of that book into the proper .lproj
folders of your application's bundle.
Here's what I said a Carbon mailing list a while ago:
"Let's clarify our semantics first: a help bundle is something that is
itself a document bundle, and it's suffix is .help. This bundle type is
used by Apple's documentation authors, but has not been discussed as a
feature available to developers at this point. Why? We're not trying to
keep you from doing anything, but 1) we'd like to get more qualification
done on this feature, and 2) you shouldn't need to use a .help bundle
anyway, provided you store your Help content inside of your application
package. Both methods are just a way to provide localized help content."
Check out the document titled "Providing User Assistance with Apple
Help" for more information on this topic, and also come to the Apple
Help session at WWDC this year.
Here's the URL for the online doc:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/HumanInterfaceToolbox/AppleHelp/
Apple_Help/index.html
Regards,
Jesssica
On Tuesday, May 1, 2001, at 08:10 AM, Ken Grigsby wrote:
What do I need to do to have my cocoa app's help menu item open a help
bundle located in /Library/Document/Help/MyApp.help?
Ken Grigsby
Thursby Software Systems Inc.
email@hidden
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list
email@hidden
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev