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Re: Help on Help preference. [message #472367]

Fri, 07 March 2008 19:05

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com

Hi Mowry,

I'm adding the eclipse.platform.ua for follow-ups to this thread. That's
the newsgroup that is focused on the help system, dynamic help, cheat
sheets, etc.

One question: for your RCP app, do you want to have the Help preference
showing, or would like a way to remove it?

Or do you mostly want to solve the problem of why nothing happens when
you click on the help icon for the Help preference?

Best regards,
Lee Anne

mowry wrote:
> Hi
> I have added help to my rcp application. Because of this it added Help preferences to preferences page.
> But when I select Help preference and click on help icon, nothing happens. Is there anything I need to do show help for Help preference.
>
> I added my own preferences, and help shows up fine for those preferences.
>
> Thanks,
> Mowry

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Re: Help on Help preference. [message #472371 is a reply to message #472367]

Sat, 08 March 2008 00:31

Chris Goldthorpe

Messages: 815
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

It sounds as though you don't have the plugin installed which contains
the help contexts which is org.eclipse.platform.doc.user. If you install
that you should start to see context help but you will also see a lot of
documents for the Eclipse Platform which don't apply to you.

It seems that your choices are to live with no context help for the help
preference page, import more documents than you want to, write your own
preference page, or provide your own context help for that one page.

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Re: Help on Help preference. [message #472372 is a reply to message #472367]

Tue, 11 March 2008 01:16

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com

Hi Mowry,

Good to hear that you found the problem you were facing!

The eclipse.platform.ua is the best forum to ask about the help system
or cheat sheets or the Welcome/Intro, because the Eclipse.org team that
develops those items tends to look at that newsgroup.

To add eclipse.platform.ua, what newsreader are you using to access
eclipse.plaform.rcp? I use Thunderbird, and I add eclipse.platform.ua
the same as I added eclipse.platform.rcp.

About your search question, I think there might be a related bug about
seeing that XML coding when doing a search. Are you familiar with
Eclipse Bugzilla?

You should post your question about the search to the
eclipse.platform.ua newsgroup and see if someone knows the precise reason.

Best regards,
Lee Anne

mowry wrote:
> Thanks Lee! How do I access eclipse.platform.ua. Is this right forum to ask any help questions.
>
> I found the problem what I was facing. org.eclipse.platform.doc.user is missing in my dependencies.
> That's why it's not showing any help.
>
> I have another question. When I do serach in the help page, I get results back with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.
> In my help html files, there xml node.
>
> Could you please tell me why is this coming?
>
> Thanks,
> Mowry

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