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Automatically load html file as context? [message #470862]

Tue, 13 November 2007 18:09

Conor O'Mahony

Messages: 108
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

I am implementing context sensitive help in my RCP application. The technical writers are using
Flare to generate their help content, and they wish to generate their own list of contexts
associated with a dialog/view in a html file, instead of defining them in a contexts.xml file.

Is there any way to automatically load this html file as the context sensitive help for a
dialog/view when F1 is pressed? I made a contexts.xml file, and defined each context with a single
topic corresponding to the html file generated by the technical writers, but when I press F1 this
displays the "Related Topics" page in the help view, with the single topic pointing to the html
file. I want to bypass the "Related Topics" page and instead directly load the html file generated
by the technical writers into the help view.

Does anyone know if this is possible to do this?

Also, is it possible to turn off/remove the "Dynamic Help/ Search Results" from the Context
sensitive view?

Many thanks,
Conor

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Re: Automatically load html file as context? [message #470864 is a reply to message #470862]

Tue, 13 November 2007 21:56

Robert Lauriston

Messages: 31
Registered: July 2009

Member

Starting in 3.3, the "Related Topics" dialog is *supposed* to be
suppressed when there's only one target topic:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=88822

I haven't had a chance to test that yet myself.

Conor O'Mahony wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am implementing context sensitive help in my RCP application. The
> technical writers are using Flare to generate their help content, and
> they wish to generate their own list of contexts associated with a
> dialog/view in a html file, instead of defining them in a contexts.xml
> file.
>
> Is there any way to automatically load this html file as the context
> sensitive help for a dialog/view when F1 is pressed? I made a
> contexts.xml file, and defined each context with a single topic
> corresponding to the html file generated by the technical writers, but
> when I press F1 this displays the "Related Topics" page in the help
> view, with the single topic pointing to the html file. I want to bypass
> the "Related Topics" page and instead directly load the html file
> generated by the technical writers into the help view.
>
> Does anyone know if this is possible to do this?
>
> Also, is it possible to turn off/remove the "Dynamic Help/ Search
> Results" from the Context sensitive view?
>
> Many thanks,
> Conor
>
>
>

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Re: Automatically load html file as context? [message #470925 is a reply to message #470864]

Wed, 14 November 2007 11:13

Conor O'Mahony

Messages: 108
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

Thanks for your help, we are currently using Eclipse 3.2 so I'm not sure what we'll do about this...

As for the "Dynamic Help/ search results" automatically generated in this window, does anyone know
if there is any way to turn this off?

Many thanks,

Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Starting in 3.3, the "Related Topics" dialog is *supposed* to be
> suppressed when there's only one target topic:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=88822
>
> I haven't had a chance to test that yet myself.
>
> Conor O'Mahony wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am implementing context sensitive help in my RCP application. The
>> technical writers are using Flare to generate their help content, and
>> they wish to generate their own list of contexts associated with a
>> dialog/view in a html file, instead of defining them in a contexts.xml
>> file.
>>
>> Is there any way to automatically load this html file as the context
>> sensitive help for a dialog/view when F1 is pressed? I made a
>> contexts.xml file, and defined each context with a single topic
>> corresponding to the html file generated by the technical writers, but
>> when I press F1 this displays the "Related Topics" page in the help
>> view, with the single topic pointing to the html file. I want to
>> bypass the "Related Topics" page and instead directly load the html
>> file generated by the technical writers into the help view.
>>
>> Does anyone know if this is possible to do this?
>>
>> Also, is it possible to turn off/remove the "Dynamic Help/ Search
>> Results" from the Context sensitive view?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Conor
>>
>>
>>

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