Re: Launching HelpViewer
Re: Launching HelpViewer
- Subject: Re: Launching HelpViewer
- From: Jessica Kahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:37:09 -0700
Hi John,
The use of NSHelpFile is deprecated, and will not result in launching Help Viewer as a result.
If CFBundleHelpBookFolder and CFBundleHelpBookName are correctly filled out, but use your app's help menu results in the "help is not available" dialog, it would lead me to believe that your help "book" isn't set up quite right.
Check out /Developer/Documentation/Apple Help/Tutorial/ for the steps you need to follow to properly add a help book to your application. Other documentation that the Apple Help subfolder goes into greater detail about the various things you can do when authoring your help book to make it more fully featured, but it sounds like your situation is pretty simple, so it will basically come down to defining the AppleTitle meta tag in your help file, putting that file into a folder, and putting that whole folder into the resources section of your application bundle.
--Jess
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 10:42 AM, John Nairn wrote:
I searched Archives of this list to find information on setting up help,
but I can not get it to work as explained in previous messages:
1. First I set NSHelpFile in my plist and it works, but help always
launches in a browser instead of HelpViewer. I am wondering how to set
which system gets used.
2. I then tried CFBundleHelpBookFolder and CFBundleHelpBookName in the
plist, but now the help command just says help is not available. I am
sure I set up the correct names including meta tag in the help file, but
I can not get it to launch. The Apple documentation says "Cocoa
applications benefit from automatic help menu handling when they
register through a property list", but for some reason not in my
application?
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John Nairn (1-801-581-3413, FAX: 1-801-581-4816)
Web page: http://www.mse.utah.edu/~nairn
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