Re: Inserting pdf file as help in Dislin Widget

["Armin Rauthe-Schöch"]

Hi Hitesh,

I don't think DISLIN has direct support for displaying PDF files.

One idea would be to create a DISLIN Widget and then use Ghostscript to do the actual rendering of the PDF. You would have to provide PageUp/PageDown buttons in your widget and then use something like:

gs -sDEVICE=x11 -gWidthxHeight --dFirstPage=PageNumber -dLastPage=PageNumber -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -c quit

where you can get the correct widget ID from getxid().

For Windows the call would be:

gswin32c -sDEVICE=display ....

(see Ghostscript documentation: Use.htm & Devices.htm)


I'm not sure about the correct syntax for the Ghostscript call. In principle your Help widget would to the same as the GhostView & gv clients for displaying Postscript or PDF files.


Good luck and please report back when and how you have solved your problem,

Armin


On 04/06/2013 04:13 AM, Hitesh wrote:
> Is it possible to include *pdf document* in*Dislin Help Widget* or by creating 'HELP' button widget?
>
> If yes, please provide me a part program as an example for the same.
>
> Thanks
> Hitesh
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[Hitesh Priyani]

Thanks bro!!! :-)

if not pdf, I am sure, I can include jpeg or bmp file(having my help content)?

 

Please do me favour of providing an example program for the same, if possible.

 

 

["Armin Rauthe-Schöch"]

Hi,

have a look at this recent thread on this mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/dislin-users/dIbA3F_vKhI

Cheers,
Armin

On 04/10/2013 02:07 AM, Hitesh Priyani wrote:
> Thanks bro!!! :-)
> if not pdf, I am sure, I can include jpeg or bmp file(having my help content)?
>
> Please do me favour of providing an example program for the same, if possible.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:01 PM, "Armin Rauthe-Schöch" <armin.raut...@mpic.de <mailto:armin.raut...@mpic.de>> wrote:
>
> Hi Hitesh,
>
> I don't think DISLIN has direct support for displaying PDF files.
>
> One idea would be to create a DISLIN Widget and then use Ghostscript to do the actual rendering of the PDF. You would have to provide PageUp/PageDown buttons in your widget and then use something like:
>
> gs -sDEVICE=x11 -gWidthxHeight --dFirstPage=PageNumber -dLastPage=PageNumber -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -c quit
>
> where you can get the correct widget ID from getxid().
>
> For Windows the call would be:
>
> gswin32c -sDEVICE=display ....
>
> (see Ghostscript documentation: Use.htm & Devices.htm)
>
>
> I'm not sure about the correct syntax for the Ghostscript call. In principle your Help widget would to the same as the GhostView & gv clients for displaying Postscript or PDF files.
>
>
> Good luck and please report back when and how you have solved your problem,
>
> Armin
>
>
> On 04/06/2013 04:13 AM, Hitesh wrote:
> > Is it possible to include *pdf document* in*Dislin Help Widget* or by creating 'HELP' button widget?
> >
> > If yes, please provide me a part program as an example for the same.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Hitesh
> >
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[Hitesh Priyani]

That's thread created by me itself...

I guess you didn't get my question....

il reframe it... I want use img file(help document) with SWGHLP...

if you can help me  i would be grateful to you.

[Armin Rauthe-Schöch]

Hi,

the DISLIN documentation says that "swghlp" can change the TEXT string displayed when activating the "Help" menu entry.

Helmut, is there a way to change the callback routine for the "Help" menu entry to point to a user defined (widget) routine which could then display image files ?


Cheers,
Armin

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[Helmut Michels]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013 13:47:01 UTC+2 schrieb Armin:

Hi,

the DISLIN documentation says that "swghlp" can change the TEXT string displayed when activating the "Help" menu entry.

Helmut, is there a way to change the callback routine for the "Help" menu entry to point to a user defined (widget) routine which could then display image files ?

no, the help widget can only display text defined with swghlp, but not an image file.

Best regards,

Helmut
 

[Clive Jones]

I too wanted to insert help pages into an application that I developed and this is the solution I came up with (on a windows platform in a Fortran program).

 

Develop help pages as html files and then create a .chm using Microsoft Help Workshop (which is free).

 

On the GUI I added ‘User Guide’ as a menu item along the top bar which when selected calls a callback routine that calls systemqq (in IFPORT) to display the .chm file using the command hh (which is a standard windows exec).

 

Instead of using a drop down menu item an alternative would be to use WGCMD to create a push button to execute the hh command directly.

 

On non-windows systems one could write a simple routine (or use WGCMD) to display the html file directly using Firefox (or your favourite browser).

 

Clive

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[Hitesh Priyani]

Bravo!!!! I hope this works...thanks anyway, dude.....:-)