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Re: Help book content


  • Subject: Re: Help book content
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:32:07 -0700
  • Thread-topic: Help book content

On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:31:14 +0100, Andy Bettis <email@hidden> said:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to add a help book to one of my apps and am falling at what
>seems like the last hurdle. I've added a folder with the help files to
>my Resources group and added Help Book directory name, Help Book
>identifier and Help file to my Info.plist file. When I run the app I
>can choose my application help from the Help menu but when the Help
>Viewer loads it says "Help Viewer cannot open this content". I've cut
>down my top-level help html file to virtually nothing but I still get
>the same message. It displays fine in Safari.
>
>I've not been able to work out what's happening from the Apple
>documentation (so far) - it refers to lots of plist entries that don't
>appear when I use the pop-up menu to choose them in the Xcode plist
>editor and that don't seem to be used in other applications'
>info.plist files. Am I missing something obvious?

This is almost always caused a failure to follow directions. You must do
everything *exactly* as described by the documentation. I've made a tutorial
screencast that emphasises the key tasks:

http://www.apeth.com/writersua/implementAppleHelp.mov

m.

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