Re: Help Book Problems
Re: Help Book Problems
- Subject: Re: Help Book Problems
- From: Denis Stanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 16:09:17 +1200
Henry
I know nothing about writing Help pages myself, but I saw a comment
from Bill Cheeseman, author of Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X, saying that
if you have a single faulty link Help will assume it's somewhere on the
web and go looking there. The long delays in Help (Apple's own help is
really slow) are the time it tales to timeout these fruitless searches
of the web.
I don't really know myself. Try looking for comnents from Bill.
Denis
On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Henry McGilton wrote:
On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Chris Ridd wrote:
* On 17/3/03 10:22 pm, Henry McGilton <email@hidden> wrote:
* * First problem is the time to load up the index page .
. . .
* I have no real ideas here apart from to verify that all
* the links are completely correct and are relative to
* the file containing the link.
Thank You for you suggestions.
As far as I know, all of the conditions that you describe are
corrected. All the links are relative, and I tested all of them
by clicking through them one at a time.
I am using BBEdit to manage/edit the Help Book, and I have not yet
experimented with using BBEdit to check the syntax of the HTML.
* * Second problem is to get my App icon to show up . . .
.
* Specify the path up to the Help folder. Eg
* <meta name="AppleIcon" content="My Help Folder/icon.gif">
Right. Been There. Done That. Drank the Kool Aid . . .
* It has to be a 16x16 image, from what I can remember from
* Anguish/Buck/Yacktman.
Right --- it is a GIF, and it is 16x16, just like the ABYble says.
Question: does the App Icon *have* to be a GIF? If so, Why?
Ah Hah! From reading your explanation, and from perusing 'Cocoa
Programming', and (as usual) reading between the lines of all of
the above, I just did a little bit of experimenting. I have
concluded that the App icon *must* be in the top level of the help
folder. That is to say, I can state:
<meta name="AppleIcon" content="HenryHelpFolder/henryicon.gif">
But I can not state:
<meta name="AppleIcon"
content="HenryHelpFolder/images/henryicon.gif">
Do people agree with this, or no? Certainly, when I placed my App
icon in the designated help folder, things now work. This stuff
makes no sense at all to me.
Oh, and now that I fixed *that* little problem, miraculously,
the Help Book loads up in only a small fraction of tectonic time,
now more or less about the same as an Armadillo in a hurry . . .
Many Thanks For the Help,
........ Henry
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