Need recomendation on Help/Html packages

Rolf Schrödter

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Dec 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/18/97

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Hi folks,

I want to implement some online help with hyperlinks in a Tk-program.
Does anyone have a tip, which packages are available ?
I know JSTOOLS has a DOC package, but I need to run it
on Tk8.0 on Win95 :(

Any hints are welcome.

Rolf.
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Victor Wagner

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Dec 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/19/97

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Rolf Schrödter (Rolf.Sc...@dlr.de) wrote:
: Hi folks,

: I want to implement some online help with hyperlinks in a Tk-program.
: Does anyone have a tip, which packages are available ?
: I know JSTOOLS has a DOC package, but I need to run it
: on Tk8.0 on Win95 :(

: Any hints are welcome.

1. Look in native Widget Demo, which comes with Tcl/Tk. There is a hypertext
example. It is much less sophisticated than JSTOOLS, so it is simplier point
to start from

2. Get HTML_LIB from ftp.sunlabs.com and write your help in html.

3. Don't bother with writing help system at all, just launch default WWW
browser. (lynx preferable ;-)

: Rolf.

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Brent B. Welch

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Dec 21, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/21/97

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vi...@party.fe.msk.ru (Victor Wagner) writes:

>
> Rolf Schrödter (Rolf.Sc...@dlr.de) wrote:

> 2. Get HTML_LIB from ftp.sunlabs.com and write your help in html.

You can also find incarnations of this in webtk and exmh available at
http://sunscript.sun.com/{webtk,exmh}

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Mark Patton

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Dec 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/25/97

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I've written a very simple html help system that uses a modified
version of the html_library 0.3 by Stephel Uhler. (I added some 8.0
goodies like namespace, made it into a package, and changed the
formatting a little.) If you want to take a look, email me.
The codes pretty rough right now, maybe I'll fix it up.

Mark

hbae...@island.net

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Dec 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM12/25/97

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On 19 Dec 1997 07:23:35 GMT, vi...@party.fe.msk.ru (Victor Wagner)
wrote:

>Rolf Schrödter (Rolf.Sc...@dlr.de) wrote:
>: Hi folks,
>
>: I want to implement some online help with hyperlinks in a Tk-program.
>: Does anyone have a tip, which packages are available ?
>: I know JSTOOLS has a DOC package, but I need to run it
>: on Tk8.0 on Win95 :(
>
>: Any hints are welcome.
>
>1. Look in native Widget Demo, which comes with Tcl/Tk. There is a hypertext
>example. It is much less sophisticated than JSTOOLS, so it is simplier point
>to start from
>

>2. Get HTML_LIB from ftp.sunlabs.com and write your help in html.
>

>3. Don't bother with writing help system at all, just launch default WWW
>browser. (lynx preferable ;-)

Of course you need not, it is Microsoft who drive you to reinvent the
wheel. I use webtk to read HTML help, and tkedit to generate it
because that is simpler than using most HTML editor author's ideas of
what is easy to use to generate HTML (with all due respect to Brent
Welcj, the attention needed to produce HTML in webtk editor mode calls
for far more dedication than does learning raw HTML and using tkedit.

I think you will have considerable trouble coding HTML for the jstools
jdoc script. As an author of help scripts I believe you should
facilitate the use of any available HTML reader the user already has
installed, and not expect that user to clutter their disk with yet
another browser. Hence my anymosity towards the idea that HTML
browsers can hide their own help file at a web site, instead of
distributing them with the browser. There are limits to how up to the
moment you need to be!

Harry