Re: Status of Help functionality for GNOME2 components

["satyajit kanungo" <satyajit kanungo wipro com>]

There is no issue for linking the "help" to multiple documents.
  But in this case applications need to take care to link 
  the "help" menus to different documents. I mean GNOMEUIINFO_HELP
  macro will provide a single menu "Help Contents" which can be 
  linked to one document . If the application has multiple 
  documets , it has to take care (creating multiple menu items)
  to link to many documents.
  something like 

  help->
  User Manual
  Quick Refernce Manual 
  Faq
  About 
    
  For the above case instead of calling GNOMEUIINFO_HELP macro 
  application need to create the above menus and then link 
  individual menus to the respective help documents.
  This will solve the purpose I think.

  Regards
  satyajit

  

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 10:53:30PM +0100, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > The help API allows for multiple files by using the convention
> > > "ghelp:docid". While in most cases docid=appname, that is not 
> required,> > allowing multiple help documents to be be linked from 
> the help manual, as
> > > Nautilus 1.0.x did.
> > > 
> > 
> > The present chunking code doesn't know anything about the 
> possiblity of
> > multiple docs (and it would be a problem to teach it to know) - 
> is this a
> > problem? 
> > 
> 
> Not a problem. Each document here is completely separate, not 
> dependent on the
> other documents in an way, and not linked to them in any way except 
> throughthe sort of standard links that are now possible between any 
> two independent
> documents.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> 

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