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RCP - problem when help in separate plugin [message #249073]

Thu, 03 June 2004 15:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: steve.walton.us.ibm.com

In an RCP application, help is not working if table of contents and help
documents are in a separate plugin.

Is this a known issue for an RCP app?

To prove this have -
1) Copied the help plugin in full Eclipse and it works.
2) Have modified the application's plugin.xml to extend
"org.eclipse.help.toc" and copied the help TOC and documents into the
application's plugin and it works.

It simply does not work if help is in its own plugin.

Also, have checked the .log file and it gives little help:
!ENTRY org.eclipse.help.ui 4 0 Jun 03, 2004 15:42:58.121
!MESSAGE Documentation is not installed.

Re: RCP - problem when help in separate plugin [message #249184 is a reply to message #249073]

Thu, 03 June 2004 23:34

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ed.burnette.REMOVE.THIS.sas.com

Do you mean the help TOC is in one plug-in and the documents it refers to
are in another? Or that there is a plug-in that only contains help (both TOC
and documents) and nothing else and that doesn't work. If the latter, that
should definitely work so file a bug, but if the former, I'm not sure that's
supported.

--
Ed Burnette, co-author, Eclipse in Action
www.eclipsepowered.org

"Steve Walton" <steve.walton@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:c9nvb6$80q$1@eclipse.org...
> In an RCP application, help is not working if table of contents and help
> documents are in a separate plugin.
>
> Is this a known issue for an RCP app?
>
> To prove this have -
> 1) Copied the help plugin in full Eclipse and it works.
> 2) Have modified the application's plugin.xml to extend
> "org.eclipse.help.toc" and copied the help TOC and documents into the
> application's plugin and it works.
>
> It simply does not work if help is in its own plugin.
>
> Also, have checked the .log file and it gives little help:
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.help.ui 4 0 Jun 03, 2004 15:42:58.121
> !MESSAGE Documentation is not installed.
>
>

Re: RCP - problem when help in separate plugin [message #249548 is a reply to message #249184]

Fri, 04 June 2004 10:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: steve.walton.us.ibm.com

I ment the latter. Both the TOC and documents are in a separate plugin.

Defect has been entered - # 65722

Ed Burnette wrote:

> Do you mean the help TOC is in one plug-in and the documents it refers to
> are in another? Or that there is a plug-in that only contains help (both TOC
> and documents) and nothing else and that doesn't work. If the latter, that
> should definitely work so file a bug, but if the former, I'm not sure that's
> supported.
>
"Steve Walton" <steve.walton@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:c9nvb6$80q$1@eclipse.org...

>> In an RCP application, help is not working if table of contents and help
>> documents are in a separate plugin.
>>
>> Is this a known issue for an RCP app?
>>
>> To prove this have -
>> 1) Copied the help plugin in full Eclipse and it works.
>> 2) Have modified the application's plugin.xml to extend
>> "org.eclipse.help.toc" and copied the help TOC and documents into the
>> application's plugin and it works.
>>
>> It simply does not work if help is in its own plugin.
>>
>> Also, have checked the .log file and it gives little help:
>> !ENTRY org.eclipse.help.ui 4 0 Jun 03, 2004 15:42:58.121
>> !MESSAGE Documentation is not installed.
>>
>>

Re: RCP - problem when help in separate plugin [message #249558 is a reply to message #249073]

Fri, 04 June 2004 10:55

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dorian.birsan.net

"Steve Walton" <steve.walton@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:c9nvb6$80q$1@eclipse.org...
> In an RCP application, help is not working if table of contents and help
> documents are in a separate plugin.
>
> Is this a known issue for an RCP app?
>
> To prove this have -
> 1) Copied the help plugin in full Eclipse and it works.
> 2) Have modified the application's plugin.xml to extend
> "org.eclipse.help.toc" and copied the help TOC and documents into the
> application's plugin and it works.
>
> It simply does not work if help is in its own plugin.

If you move the docs (doc.zip or the html files if not zipped) to another
plugin, you will have to adjust the href attributes in the corresponding
toc.xml files. Check the online help for what the cross plugin format is for
href (if I remember correctly, this is /other_plugin_id/path/to/file.html,
so you need to prepend /other_plugin_id/ to each href in the toc.xml files).

>
> Also, have checked the .log file and it gives little help:
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.help.ui 4 0 Jun 03, 2004 15:42:58.121
> !MESSAGE Documentation is not installed.
>
>

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