From: Stuart Clarke <stuart.clarke1986@...>
Date: 2009-03-10T04:06:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Help files

Thanks Alex. Really useful. I have been messing around with Lauchy this 
afternoon which may do the job, but I will check out your link.

Regards

Alex Fenton wrote:
> Stuart Clarke wrote:
>> Hi forum,
>> 
>> I am looking to have some form of help file/technical documentation to
>> go alongside a GUI application. Basically on the click of a button (help
>> button) a file will be opened in its native viewer eg adobe reader for a
>> PDF file.
>> 
>> What is the best way to perform such a task in ruby, I am quite flexible
>> as to the format of the help file either a PDF or compiled html.
> 
> It depends how sophisticated you want to get. If you simply want to
> display a PDF with help on a button being clicked, then pretty much any
> GUI should be able to do that. Call Ruby's system with 'start' [Windows]
> 'open' [OS X] or 'xdg-open' [Linux] and the name of the file, eg
> 
> system "open myhelp.pdf"
> 
> If you want a more sophisticated help browser - eg context-specific
> links to sections from the GUI, searching, using the native Windows CHM
> help browser, see something like:
> 
> http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/#online_help
> 
> Esp HelpController / HtmlHelpController. As Eric says, I'd expect the
> other heavyweight GUI toolkits (GNOME2, Qt) to offer something similar,
> though I couldn't find a reference to this for GNOME2.
> 
> alex

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