Re: Help On Help Please

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Anthony Edward Cooper schrieb:
> 
>    Hello,
> 
>    I am currently developing an application called mtn-browse. It uses
> Perl Gtk2 bindings. Everything has worked out fine so far apart from I
> cannot get the help working. It is probably something fairly basic that
> I am doing wrong but I can't find any help on the matter (only other
> people having the same problem).
> 
>    Details:
>       OS: WhiteBox Linux Respin 1 (RedHat AS4U3 clone, i686).
>       Ver: Gtk: 1.2.10 Gnome: 1.4.1.2 (as given by gtk-config --version
> and gnome-config --version)

use pkg-config --modversion <libname>
the other ones are from gtk1 etc.

> 
>    Why an older version? 1) I started developing this for work (will be
> published under GPL3) and they use RHAS4U2. 2) I wanted to reach a wider
> audience rather than go with the bleeding edge so to speak).
> 
>    I initialise the app with:
> 
>        Gnome2::Program->init("mtn-browse", 0.51);

I don't know the perl-bindings, but the function in libgnome allows to pass more
parameters, among which are argc/argv. I belive libgnome gets the path to the
app from there.

Stefan

> 
>    and call up help with:
> 
>        Gnome2::Help->display("mtn-browse.xml");
> 
>    and I get on stderr:
> 
> Gnome-WARNING **: gnome-program.c:987: Directory properties not set
> correctly.  Cannot locate application specific files. at ./mtn-browse
> line 676.
> *** unhandled exception in callback:
> ***   Unable to find the GNOME_FILE_DOMAIN_APP_HELP domain at
> ./mtn-browse line 676.
> ***  ignoring at ./mtn-browse line 342.
> 
>    I basically copied one of the existing Gnome help files into the
> current directory where I'm developing the app so I could test the
> general principle.
> 
>    1) What am I doing wrong? And how do I go about correcting it?
>    2) Does one need the extra support files have seem to go with the xml
> files and is there a simple way of generating them. Remember I am
> developing a Perl app and so don't have a make file as such (as
> generated by say Glade) so I am after a set of simple commands one can
> do on the command line or in a dedicated make file just for generating
> the help file(s).
> 
>    Another relevant point is that mtn-browse is designed to be installed
> where the user wants rather than forcing them to install it under /usr.
> Therefore I need to be able to find the mtn-browse help files where ever
> they may be located (so I need to tell Gnome where to look - I guess
> this is done through API calls and/or the environment). How can this be
> done?
> 
>    Sorry for the list of questions but I have spent some time looking on
> the web for help, probably in the wrong place admittedly, but on this
> topic I have come to a dead-end.
> 
>    Many thanks for any help in advance.
> 
>    Yours faithfully,
> 
>    Tony Cooper.
> 
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