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Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header a
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Wendy Boutin |
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Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment] |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:12:12 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
On 2009-03-12 15:43, Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2009-03-11 15:19Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:05:13 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> GC> On 2009-03-11 14:17Z, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
>> GC> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:04:29 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> GC> >
>> GC> > GC> | - Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add
>> wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
>> GC> > GC>
>> GC> > GC> A stray thought: maybe we should use wxLaunchDefaultBrowser instead
>> GC> > GC> of wxHtmlHelp.
>> GC> >
>> GC> > It was possible to do this before, wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() just
>> makes it
>> GC> > simpler, so this shouldn't really change anything for this question.
>> But
>> GC> > it's indeed much more common to show help in the (users default)
>> browser
>> GC> > rather than doing it inside the application itself nowadays.
>> GC>
>> GC> Would wxExtHelpController take care of that in the best way?
>>
>> This would probably be the simplest way when switching from
>> wxHtmlHelpController as they have almost the same API. But I don't know
>> whether it has any advantages for LMI compared to just opening the external
>> browser on the help contents page as LMI doesn't seem to use neither help
>> index nor provide a search command in help menu as one of the main added
>> benefits of this class is support for these commands.
>
> USA: Do you see any disadvantage in this change, which otherwise
> I will apply this weekend?
No objection here. In fact, I really like the behavior. I use a
browser that has multiple tabs, so I find it super convenient to
see it open in a new tab when the browser is already active; more
convenient than opening a new browser.
- Re[2]: [lmi] wxHTML table header alignment, Vadim Zeitlin, 2009/03/09
- Re: [lmi] wxHTML table header alignment, Greg Chicares, 2009/03/11
- Re[2]: [lmi] wxHTML table header alignment, Vadim Zeitlin, 2009/03/11
- Re: [lmi] wxHTML table header alignment, Greg Chicares, 2009/03/11
- Re[2]: [lmi] wxHTML table header alignment, Vadim Zeitlin, 2009/03/11
- [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment], Greg Chicares, 2009/03/12
- Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment],
Wendy Boutin <=
- Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment], Greg Chicares, 2009/03/12
- Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment], Wendy Boutin, 2009/03/18
- Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment], Greg Chicares, 2009/03/18
- Re: [lmi] Complete replacement of help engine [Re: wxHTML table header alignment], Greg Chicares, 2009/03/18