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IHelpContentProvider is never called [message #475712] Wed, 05 August 2009 08:58 Go to next message
Roland Brand is currently offline Roland BrandFriend
Messages: 42
Registered: July 2009
Member
Hi

I'm trying to add some context sensitive help to my RCP application. My
editor adapts to IContextProvider to provide the correct IContext, which
is generated on the fly.

When I open the dynamic help (F1), the "Related Topics" view is shown
correctly, but when I click one of the links, I get a HTTP error 404 from
the ProxyServlet. What I would like to see is a HTML file from another
plugin, so the URL looks like /my.plugin.id/myfile.html.

As this did not work, I wrote my own IHelpContentProducer which should
open the file and return an InputStream. I registered my class in the
plugin.xml as a contentProducer in the extension point
org.eclipse.help.contentProducer. But this does not work neither. The
method getInputStream() of my IHelpContentProducer is never called.

What am I missing here? How can I get the IHelpContentProducer working? My
target platform is Eclipse 3.5.

Thanks for any help

Roland

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Re: IHelpContentProvider is never called [message #479422 is a reply to message #475712] Mon, 10 August 2009 23:42 Go to previous message
Chris Goldthorpe is currently offline Chris GoldthorpeFriend
Messages: 815
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Without seeing your code it's hard to tell why exactly why it is not
working. A content producer produces content only for the plug-in it is
declared in, so if you have a plug-in my.plugin which has a content
producer that content producer will be called every time the help system
sees a reference to a file in that plug-in, for example with a url of
/my.plugin/myfile.html.



Roland Brand wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to add some context sensitive help to my RCP application. My
> editor adapts to IContextProvider to provide the correct IContext, which
> is generated on the fly.
>
> When I open the dynamic help (F1), the "Related Topics" view is shown
> correctly, but when I click one of the links, I get a HTTP error 404
> from the ProxyServlet. What I would like to see is a HTML file from
> another plugin, so the URL looks like /my.plugin.id/myfile.html.
>
> As this did not work, I wrote my own IHelpContentProducer which should
> open the file and return an InputStream. I registered my class in the
> plugin.xml as a contentProducer in the extension point
> org.eclipse.help.contentProducer. But this does not work neither. The
> method getInputStream() of my IHelpContentProducer is never called.
>
> What am I missing here? How can I get the IHelpContentProducer working?
> My target platform is Eclipse 3.5.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Roland
>
>
>

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Re: IHelpContentProvider is never called [message #623517 is a reply to message #475712] Mon, 10 August 2009 23:42 Go to previous message
Chris Goldthorpe is currently offline Chris GoldthorpeFriend
Messages: 815
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Without seeing your code it's hard to tell why exactly why it is not
working. A content producer produces content only for the plug-in it is
declared in, so if you have a plug-in my.plugin which has a content
producer that content producer will be called every time the help system
sees a reference to a file in that plug-in, for example with a url of
/my.plugin/myfile.html.



Roland Brand wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to add some context sensitive help to my RCP application. My
> editor adapts to IContextProvider to provide the correct IContext, which
> is generated on the fly.
>
> When I open the dynamic help (F1), the "Related Topics" view is shown
> correctly, but when I click one of the links, I get a HTTP error 404
> from the ProxyServlet. What I would like to see is a HTML file from
> another plugin, so the URL looks like /my.plugin.id/myfile.html.
>
> As this did not work, I wrote my own IHelpContentProducer which should
> open the file and return an InputStream. I registered my class in the
> plugin.xml as a contentProducer in the extension point
> org.eclipse.help.contentProducer. But this does not work neither. The
> method getInputStream() of my IHelpContentProducer is never called.
>
> What am I missing here? How can I get the IHelpContentProducer working?
> My target platform is Eclipse 3.5.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Roland
>
>
>

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