Re: Help with Apple Helpbooks
Re: Help with Apple Helpbooks
- Subject: Re: Help with Apple Helpbooks
- From: Markus Spoettl <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:45:35 -0500
On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
>> I am authoring help for my application and can't even get a simple implementation to work, let alone localization. I have connected the File's Owner showHelp method to the mainMenu in my NIB. Does anyone know a workable directory structure to use? My application is localized across English and German; can you use localized files, or do you need to put the translation for each help system in it's own directory?
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> The "Add Apple Help" chapter in my book, "Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The Vermont Recipes (Second Edition, 2010)" gives a detailed explanation of how to write a Help book using the new Snow Leopard technique, with sample code. But you can't use this technique unless your application runs exclusively on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or newer. If your application also supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or older, you have to use the old Leopard-and-older technique, and the current edition of Apple's Programming Guide kind of mooshes that up with newer techniques in a very unhelpful way. Apple's own applications use both techniques, depending on how old they are. (My book does contain information about how to use both techniques in the same application, if you really want to do that. It isn't too hard.)
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> You can find my book at <http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321670418>.
If you're like me and can't wait for the mail delivery, you can also get it much faster from Amazon as a Kindle edition.
Regards
Markus
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