Re: latest patches

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Hi Harry,

i did some research regarding the start of the default html browser on windows via

„start“. I have commited a new patch

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pspp.git/commit/?id=970c24cc433e6d87cb3c502b2d2bdce6775a3d3e

which hopefully works on windows also.

The help system will look for help resources with the following priorities:

First: The yelp system, then

If the directory <docpath>/pspp.html exists

     Try the local html help files via <docpath>/pspp.html/<helppage>.html, 

else 

      http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/index.html

To install the local html help pages (not the single page version), you have to run

make html

make install-html

This will produce <psppinstallt>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/index.html and other html

files in that directory. (Hopefully on windows also with suffix .html …)

Friedrich

Am 25.05.2016 um 14:31 schrieb Harry Thijssen <address@hidden>:

Hi Friedrich

2016-05-25 8:10 GMT+02:00 Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>:

Hi Harry,

thanks for testing the two patches on windows!

The help function is trying the following steps

a) starting help via yelp -> this will not work in windows
b) Opening a local html file -> Depends on the existencs of a local pspp.html directory in the doc path
   I guess you have the local html installed somewhere
   <yourpsppinstall>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/index.html for the start page
c) Open the help via the gnu pspp internet site

You could help me debugging this with

Could you tell me the path of the pspp.html directory where you have the local html files?

I changed my procedure and copied the file pspp.html from Ben's daily tarball builds to  <yourpsppinstall>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html 

Could you try if

start file:///<yourlocalpath>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html/index.html

I have just 1 file copied from Bens daily builds.

"<yourlocalpath>/share/doc/pspp/pspp.html"

works for me in a command shell. Even with a space in the file name. Surprisingly  / or \ works both. ?????

will open a browser with the help page? Could you send me the exact syntax?
Maybe with quotes? Maybe with spaces replaced by %20? I agree
that your guess with „Program Files“ indicates the problem.

With quotes and spaces but without start.  

Could you move or delete the pspp.html directory and test if psppire can
reach the internet help? I think there are no spaces in the url. It will try

start http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/index.html

In a command shell exact this line works INCLUDING start. But when started from the help page in pspp it is not shown.
 

Does this work on windows?

Friedrich

It might be easier if I apply the patches and run a test. More info can be displayed to figure out how MSWindows handles this. So we can figure out how to handle this.

Have fun