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First time help loads.. [message #470165]

Fri, 26 October 2007 11:29

drew frantz

Messages: 340
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

The first time the help is loaded it takes an fairly long time to load and
typically it does not go to the correct section of the document when
initiating displyaHelp (aContextId). All access after the first access is
fine, but the first one is slow and inaccurate. Is there something I can do
to preload the help (I assume it is building indices or caching the images
from the html pages) during startup so that the first access is correct?

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Re: First time help loads.. [message #470579 is a reply to message #470165]

Thu, 01 November 2007 15:12

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com

Hi Drew,

Would you please provide some more information about the situational
context in which you are seeing the slow loading?

I mean the exact steps you take up to where the help is taking a long
time to load. Are you in the IDE Workbench and then clicking
Help->Contents for the separate help window? Or are you pressing F1 to
get the help view?

By 'first access', do you mean loading within the help view, that's
usually on the right hand side of the Workbench itself?

Lee Anne

Drew Frantz wrote:
> The first time the help is loaded it takes an fairly long time to load and
> typically it does not go to the correct section of the document when
> initiating displyaHelp (aContextId). All access after the first access is
> fine, but the first one is slow and inaccurate. Is there something I can do
> to preload the help (I assume it is building indices or caching the images
> from the html pages) during startup so that the first access is correct?
>
>

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Re: First time help loads.. [message #470582 is a reply to message #470579]

Thu, 01 November 2007 18:31

drew frantz

Messages: 340
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

RCP application call to :
IWorkbenchHelpSystem theHelp = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getHelpSystem();

theHelp.displayHelp(sAnyContextId);

By first access I mean the first time the help UI is launched by the user in
the RCP app.

"Lee Anne" <nospam_kowalskilee@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fgcqb9$id0$2@build.eclipse.org...
> Hi Drew,
>
> Would you please provide some more information about the situational
> context in which you are seeing the slow loading?
>
> I mean the exact steps you take up to where the help is taking a long time
> to load. Are you in the IDE Workbench and then clicking Help->Contents for
> the separate help window? Or are you pressing F1 to get the help view?
>
> By 'first access', do you mean loading within the help view, that's
> usually on the right hand side of the Workbench itself?
>
> Lee Anne
>
> Drew Frantz wrote:
>> The first time the help is loaded it takes an fairly long time to load
>> and typically it does not go to the correct section of the document when
>> initiating displyaHelp (aContextId). All access after the first access is
>> fine, but the first one is slow and inaccurate. Is there something I can
>> do to preload the help (I assume it is building indices or caching the
>> images from the html pages) during startup so that the first access is
>> correct?
>>

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