[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]
opacs/help, mosaic
About help and mosaic.
Clearly the doc and help
is still a problem for us.
We have part of the answers
but I have not today a full
running system.
What you see in
activateCallback = osh> help 'Commands cmds.ohtx'
is the use of an "ohtx" format
which I had introduced to have only one
support for paper doc and online doc
handled by the XoHelp widget.
But now we have HTML which realize
what I want.
To adopt fully HTML I must be able
to replace the XoHelp widget
with an HTML browser.
Now I have it with the XoMosaic widget
that is mainly the HTML widget found
in mosaic. You can see XoMosaic widget
with WoT and the "XoMosaic" panel.
But job is not finish yet.
I have to provide a "help" command
that download a subject in the
XoMosaic.
I shall have it in next version.
Today what you can do is write
your HTML doc, and on an help button
launch mosaic on a KLOE display page
with:
activateCallback = sys> xmosaic
In the WoT example you can
see the "ballon" help system, which
permits to have a "sensitive" help system.
Start WoT, load the "Wo features" panel,
click on "Set ballon help" and move pointer
on the widgets of the panel. If you have
"shape extension" on you X server you must see
help text that appears in some "ballon" near
the widgets.
Here the "helpCallback" is executed
when pointer "overfly" a widget. On the
helpCallback I put a script that, fetch topic in
some the simple HTML file WoT.html,
and display it in the ballon.
Clearly pieces are there. Some
job is needed to put them together.
G.Barrand