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| Re: Configuring navigation tabs in Infocenter [message #474712 is a reply to message #474711] |
Fri, 24 October 2008 15:57   |
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Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com
Mike Melton wrote:
> I've developed a standalone Infocenter and have been asked if it would
> be easy to remove the keyword Index tab and only have the Contents and
> Search Results tabs visible. (My initial response was "no," but I
> thought I should ask.)
>
> I've not seen any preferences that control which tabs are visible and
> have seen no discussions about removing tabs or it mentioned in the
> documentation. Has anyone tried this or possibly point me in the right
> direction?
>
> Thanks much!
> Mike
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Hi Mike
I thought that at one point in time, if none of the doc plug-ins
declared the index extension point and had no index entries, the Index
tab would not be displayed. I can't recall if this is still the case in
3.4. I won't be able to run a test to confirm until later today--but
that is a direction that you can start looking in.
--Lee Anne
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| Thanks Chris! [message #474714 is a reply to message #474713] |
Fri, 24 October 2008 17:37 |
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Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com
Hi Chris, thanks for the info about the customization. I had forgotten
about that, and is a better way to do it. Gives us the power to turn
on/off the display. :-)
Chris Goldthorpe wrote:
> You are correct that at one time the index tab was only shown if there
> was no index. The problem with this approach was that the act of
> testing to see whether the index existed caused the entire index to be
> read due to the way the APIs and internal data structures work. We only
> want to read the index data when the user selects the index tab.
>
> There is a customization to allow you to hide the index tab, it is
> org.eclipse.help.base.indexView, which when set to false hides the index
> view. I just looked for this in the documentation and could not find it,
> it seems that this missed getting documented. I will fix that.
>
> Lee Anne wrote:
>> Mike Melton wrote:
>>> I've developed a standalone Infocenter and have been asked if it
>>> would be easy to remove the keyword Index tab and only have the
>>> Contents and Search Results tabs visible. (My initial response was
>>> "no," but I thought I should ask.)
>>>
>>> I've not seen any preferences that control which tabs are visible and
>>> have seen no discussions about removing tabs or it mentioned in the
>>> documentation. Has anyone tried this or possibly point me in the
>>> right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks much!
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mike
>>
>> I thought that at one point in time, if none of the doc plug-ins
>> declared the index extension point and had no index entries, the Index
>> tab would not be displayed. I can't recall if this is still the case
>> in 3.4. I won't be able to run a test to confirm until later
>> today--but that is a direction that you can start looking in.
>>
>> --Lee Anne
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| Re: Configuring navigation tabs in Infocenter [message #621656 is a reply to message #474711] |
Fri, 24 October 2008 15:57 |
| Eclipse User |
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Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com
Mike Melton wrote:
> I've developed a standalone Infocenter and have been asked if it would
> be easy to remove the keyword Index tab and only have the Contents and
> Search Results tabs visible. (My initial response was "no," but I
> thought I should ask.)
>
> I've not seen any preferences that control which tabs are visible and
> have seen no discussions about removing tabs or it mentioned in the
> documentation. Has anyone tried this or possibly point me in the right
> direction?
>
> Thanks much!
> Mike
>
Hi Mike
I thought that at one point in time, if none of the doc plug-ins
declared the index extension point and had no index entries, the Index
tab would not be displayed. I can't recall if this is still the case in
3.4. I won't be able to run a test to confirm until later today--but
that is a direction that you can start looking in.
--Lee Anne
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| Thanks Chris! [message #621658 is a reply to message #474713] |
Fri, 24 October 2008 17:37 |
| Eclipse User |
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Originally posted by: nospam_kowalskilee.gmail.com
Hi Chris, thanks for the info about the customization. I had forgotten
about that, and is a better way to do it. Gives us the power to turn
on/off the display. :-)
Chris Goldthorpe wrote:
> You are correct that at one time the index tab was only shown if there
> was no index. The problem with this approach was that the act of
> testing to see whether the index existed caused the entire index to be
> read due to the way the APIs and internal data structures work. We only
> want to read the index data when the user selects the index tab.
>
> There is a customization to allow you to hide the index tab, it is
> org.eclipse.help.base.indexView, which when set to false hides the index
> view. I just looked for this in the documentation and could not find it,
> it seems that this missed getting documented. I will fix that.
>
> Lee Anne wrote:
>> Mike Melton wrote:
>>> I've developed a standalone Infocenter and have been asked if it
>>> would be easy to remove the keyword Index tab and only have the
>>> Contents and Search Results tabs visible. (My initial response was
>>> "no," but I thought I should ask.)
>>>
>>> I've not seen any preferences that control which tabs are visible and
>>> have seen no discussions about removing tabs or it mentioned in the
>>> documentation. Has anyone tried this or possibly point me in the
>>> right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks much!
>>> Mike
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mike
>>
>> I thought that at one point in time, if none of the doc plug-ins
>> declared the index extension point and had no index entries, the Index
>> tab would not be displayed. I can't recall if this is still the case
>> in 3.4. I won't be able to run a test to confirm until later
>> today--but that is a direction that you can start looking in.
>>
>> --Lee Anne
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