Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Andreas Heppel]

On 2003-01-21 18:52:05 +0100 ibotty <ibotty@web.de> wrote:

> > Ah !  in fact I was right then .. ;-) you get the whole help file, you're 
> > juste
> > poited to the right section. Quite different than tooltip then
> sorry, but i understand context sensitive help differently.
>
> this kind of help is in my understanding a (huge) tooltip.
> thats how at least kde and windoze understand it too.
And that's the way I understand it.
> i think we shouldnt differ from both.
>
> i just checked my kde.
> in kde you have a extra window hint for context help.
> you just click it, then the view, and it displays a tooltip.
> (if not in kwin, open e.g. kcontrol and click help->"whats this?" in the 
> menu, you get the same.)
In Windoze you have this litle question mark in the title bar (at least it 
used to be there when I last used it a long time ago :)In my understanding 
this has the same meaning as this ominous 'Help key'.
This also the way I understand the OpenStep API. In NSHelpManager you have
- (void) setContextHelp: (NSAttributedString *) help withObject: (id) object
used to assign one little piece of text to anUI element (or even an 
otherobject which wouldn't make much sense, though).
-> Kind of enhanced tooltips.
I doubt that this is used much and would prefer one centralized viewer 
(either HelpViwer or some internal GNUstep tool) bringing me to the 
requested bit of information. This  also had the advantage that from here I 
could follow a link to a different topic or open another help file which I 
can't with the current implementation of contect help (or the way I 
interpret its API).

Cheers,
Andreas

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