Shaun,
Thanks for your reply. I figured that it will work in 2.6 and won't work
in 2.4 sometime back in November. I'm a little puzzled as to why my
mesage from November appeared on the list again, but anyway, thanks for
answering it :-)
Alex
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 06:30:25PM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:39, Alex Roitman wrote:
> > On 2003.11.24 10:18, Don Allingham wrote:
> > > The project I am working on (GRAMPS - a GNOME genealogy program) has
> > > recently encountered a problem with GNOME 2.4 installations. On GNOME
> > > 2.4, "sect3" headings no longer show up in "yelp", and we can no
> > > longer use the gnome help functions to bring up yelp to a "sect3"
> > > location.
> > >
> > > Our project is written in python, and we used to be able to do:
> > >
> > > gnome.help_display("gramps-manual","adv-pers")
> > >
> > > This would bring up yelp to the "adv-pers" tag (a sect3 heading) in
> > > the manual. Under GNOME 2.4, it goes to the top of the document. This
> > > makes the context-sensitive help pretty much useless.
> > >
> > > When the same code and same manual are run under GNOME 2.2, we get to
> > > the correct heading.
> > >
> > > Is this a Yelp problem, or has something else changed?
> >
> > In regards to this problem, I stumbled upon bug #114117 and the
> > relevant discussion on this list:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2003-May/msg00036.html
> >
> > It sees that the intention was to have no change in behavior for app
> > developers, but sadly it's not there yet.
> >
> > Could you please orient us as to when we should expect the correct
> > behavior with displaying sect3 level headings?
> >
> > We are releasing our stable version soon. Releasing it with broken help
> > links is not a nice thing to do for our users.
> >
> > Please help!
>
> This will work in 2.6. There is nothing that can be done for 2.4 at
> this point.
>
> --
> Shaun
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