Re: NSApplication:showHelp: "set the application's help file using Project Builder" -- HOW?
Re: NSApplication:showHelp: "set the application's help file using Project Builder" -- HOW?
- Subject: Re: NSApplication:showHelp: "set the application's help file using Project Builder" -- HOW?
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 10:45:55 -0700
On Thu, 16 May 2002 12:51:09 -0500, Kirk Kerekes <email@hidden> said:
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The doc for NSApplication->showHelp: asserts that "(You set the application'
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s help file using Project Builder.)", but I cannot find any applicable
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specifics on this issue in the PB help, or searching the web. I
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specifically do not want to use the halt/lame Help Viewer (I don't know
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about you, but it annoys me just to see that life-ring icon start bouncing
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in my dock) -- it is my intention to use an rtf file.
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[rant beginRanting];
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I think that in the time I have spent trying to figure out how to do this
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"right", I could have simply created a window in IB with a NSTextView in it,
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and written code to load the NSTextView with my help file.
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This sort of situation is what us out in the trenches mean when we moan
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about the state of Cocoa docs.
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[rant endRanting];
The problem is that Apple does not want you to use an RTF file. They want
you to use Help Viewer. I can tell you how to do it, but if I do, I just
know that the Thought Police will come down on my head like a ton of bricks
saying you're supposed to use Help Viewer, like they always do. I'm really
tired of having this happen, so I'm not going to tell you the answer. Use
the archives instead. m.
PS Hint: search for NSHelpFile.
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