Re: gnome2: calling gnome_help_display() fails

[Satyajit Kanungo <satyajit kanungo wipro com>]

Hi Vladislav,
Passing GNOME_PROGRAM_STANDARD_PROPERTIES to gnome_program_init()
should work. (I mean whatever Rodrigo has suggested should work
fine).

Make sure the "app-id" you are passing in program_init() should
match with your help file name. The help document should be named
as app-id.xml. (Are your help files are getting installed in the
proper location . It should be present
prefix/share/gnome/help/<app-name>/<locale>/<app-id>.xml

Actually you only need to send the DATADIR to program_init() to make
the application search the help file. (GNOME_PROGRAM_STANDARD_PROPERTIES
does the thing also).

Try this way and let me know if it works. I have modified many of the 
gnome apps
this way and they continue to work :)

Change in Makefile.am

SUBDIRS = help
INCLUDES = \
+       -DDATADIR=\""$(datadir)"\"


Change gnome_program_init() to pass the DATDIR

gnome_program_init (app_id, version, LIBGNOMEUI_MODULE, nargs, args,
                    GNOME_PARAM_APP_DATADIR,DATADIR,NULL);


Thanks
Satyajit


Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> Rodrigo,
>
> thanks for advice. I modified my Makefile.am to include defines below
> and used GNOME_PROGRAM_STANDARD_PROPERTIES, with the same result - no
> dice. 
>
>
> BTW, it doesn't look like I can pass GNOME_PROGRAM_STANDARD_PROPERTIES
> to either of Gnome::Main () constructors. I went ahead and modified
> libgnomemm's code to do so, but, again with no visible result. 
>
>
> Any other ideas to try?
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 05:20, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been struggling with this for about a week.
> > > In my gnome2 (gnomemm2) application, call to gnome_help_display() fails
> > > with:
> > >
> > > Gnome-WARNING **: gnome-program.c:986: Directory properties not set
> > > correctly.  Cannot locate application specific files.
> >
> > when you call gnome_program_init, do it this way:
> >
> > gnome_program_init (app_id, version, LIBGNOMEUI_MODULE, nargs, args,
> >                            GNOME_PROGRAM_STANDARD_PROPERTIES, NULL);
> >
> > this will add the need for adding some -D to the compilation command
> > line, since GNOME_PROGRAM_STANDARD_PROPERTIES expects them to be
> > defined. They are:
> >
> > 	-DPREFIX=\""$(prefix)"\" \
> >        -DSYSCONFDIR=\""$(sysconfdir)"\" \
> >        -DDATADIR=\""$(datadir)"\" \
> >        -DLIBDIR=\""$(libdir)"\"
> >
> > once you do this, gnome_help_display knows how to find the help file. At
> > least, it did work for me.
> >
> > cheers
> >
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