Re: How work NSHelpPanel?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 29 Dec 2008, at 06:56, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 29 Dec 2008, at 06:12, German Arias wrote:
>
> > Hi, after install Thematic.app
> >
> > Info --> Help...
> >
> > Then, Ink.app run and load the help file. There isn't any Help Panel.
>
> That's normal behavior ... the application should launch the 'best'  
> application to display the help page, and fall back to displaying  
> within a panel only of no application exists to display it.  The  
> MacOS-X documentation actually says that it launches the HelpViewer  
> application to display the help, but we have no such application in  
> GNUstep, so we used the normal display mechanism.  Maybe we should  
> allow a user default to customise this behavior.

I added a new user default (called GSHelpViewer) to control the help  
viewer application.  I also changed the default case to look for  
Viewer applications only, rather than any application able to open the  
help file ... though I'm not sure if that's the correct thing to do  
(maybe we'll want to change that back) as it's not clear whether we  
should be able to open the help in an editor.  Perhaps we want people  
to be bale to edit/improve the help files of applications?