Re: updating help-book in Xcode
Re: updating help-book in Xcode
- Subject: Re: updating help-book in Xcode
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:01 -0700
- Thread-topic: updating help-book in Xcode
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:46:51 -0700, John Velman <email@hidden> said:
>I've been trying to learn how to add help by building a simple "help test
>bed" application. So far, I find that after I make changes to my help
>book, I need to do build->clean before building, in order to get the
>changes into the build. This is OK for this small application, but for
>something larger, this will be something of a nuisance.
>
>Is there a faster way to get the new help book into the build?
I think it is sufficient to Touch the top level help book folder within
Xcode.
Another approach, of course, is to bypass Xcode altogether; once the help
test bed app is written, just stick a new copy of the help book folder
directly into the built app bundle yourself. I very often do it this way. In
fact, I often do it for well-established apps; for example, when Mark sends
me a new version of Script Debugger and I update the help to match it, I'm
not going to wait for him to do yet *another* build including my updated
help, just so I can test it in place! I simply plop the updated help book
right into the Script Debugger bundle myself and test away.
The *real* issue, however, is not this, but that fact that the Help Viewer
system needs to be alerted to the fact that the help book has changed. This
is a major pain in the butt (one of many, many major pains in the butt
associated with the very lame Help system on Mac OS X). The best approach is
probably to delete the Help caches (I think it suffices to throw away
Caches/com.apple.help*). But sometimes I find that nothing short of
restarting the computer will help. Also sacrificing a goat has been known to
be effective. m.
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