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Re: Eclipse help system on Solaris with no browser [message #652607 is a reply to message #652188] |
Fri, 04 February 2011 16:36 |
Grant Gayed Messages: 2150 Registered: July 2009 |
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Hi,
I think your question is best asked on the eclipse.platform.ua (ua = user
assistance) newsgroup. In the meantime, maybe some of the following is
helpful (?):
- the Eclipse Help system does require either a native browser (eg.-
Firefox, or the browser that ships with Solaris) or an embeddable browser
component (eg.- XULRunner, or the browser that ships with Solaris)
- in Eclipse, Help can be configured on the Help preference page to open
either "In an external browser", or "In the help browser" (this is an
Eclipse-created Shell containing an SWT Browser control)
- if you're using Eclipse 3.5.2 or newer then the "In the help browser" case
should work on Solaris 10 (SPARC) or OpenSolaris (x86)
(http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browsersolaris), assuming that SWT's
Browser control finds a native embeddable browser component to use
- if you're using Eclipse 3.6 or newer then the "In an external browser"
case should work, assuming that a native browser can be found (I specify
Eclipse 3.6.x because of
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=292882 )
HTH,
Grant
<nwyatt@unomaha.edu> wrote in message news:iicm8b$7b7$1@news.eclipse.org...
>I believe the Eclipse help system uses the SWT Browser, which according to:
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-browser-widget/b rowser.html
>
> "The Browser widget binds to a suitable native HTML rendering engine for
> the platform it is running on (Internet Explorer on Windows, Mozilla on
> Linux, Safari on the Mac; the Eclipse SWT FAQ page lists the prerequisites
> for running the Browser widget on a particular platform). The constructor
> of the Browser widget throws an SWTError if a suitable native HTML
> rendering engine is not available. An application could trap this
> exception and degrade gracefully by disabling features that require the
> Browser widget."
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