Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1

[Andreas Heppel]

On 2003-01-21 12:58:46 +0100 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
<richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>

> Shouldn't NSHelpPanel basically contain the kind of functionality 
> helpviewer has?
> Writing a helpviewer app would basically be a case of putting a menu and an 
> open panel together with a help panel ...
> You would use the open panel to select a file to be viewed, and that file 
> is loaded into the help panel.

Basically I agree, since this would make it unnecessary to install an 
additional package just to make an app's help system available. It would 
also make this discussion obsolete since NSHelpManager could then also use 
this (more advanced) NSHelpPanel to display context help. I still don't know 
whether this concept of context help will really be used by any application. 
But I know for sure that it will not be used if it stays the way it is. It 
simply is not worth the programming effort for an application programmer.
I like what Nicolas did and would consider it the best solution to use his 
panel as NSHelpPanel, but I can as well live with the current solution. I 
just don't provide context sensitive help :)
However, I'd appreciate if a decision could be made relatively soon, 
especially concerning the file formats. I already started to play around 
with Nicolas' solution and would like to keep it (and the file format) one 
way or the other.

Cheers,
Andreas

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