Hi Riccardo,
Hello All,
P.S.: for the people wondering, the sample of Help menuItem
implementation I meant is within StepSync code.
Sorry do omit this info.
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Date: 2026-03-15 14:38:11 +0100
From: Patrick CARDONA <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: HelpViewer - Was Re: GAP repo mirror on git...
Hi Riccardo,
On 2026-03-15 12:13:25 +0100 Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Patrick CARDONA wrote:
Its working fine, as expected: case insensitive, every click on the
Search
button highlights the next found word.
Great job! Thanks to Riccardo and Fred.
Thanks, it has some shortcomings, not easy to fix, but generally
useful and
at least the button and text field do something meaningful.
We copied the name and behavior from OpenStep after Lars checked it
- no search inside legends, notes and similar - they are attachments
in the
text furthermore rendered as images, but even if not, attachments
would be
skipped
- search only in the current loaded text in the textview. If there
are
separate sections coming from multiple files, only the current is
searched
(HelpViewer has lazy loading)
And if we put all the chapters in a single file, does it mean we could
better search on this whole file out the current View, or are we even
limited by the current NSView content?
I noted something new (regression?): now the title of the Window is
"My
Window": we should expect it to be "HelpViewer" or something related
to the
.help
yes, it is a regression, a connection broke during edit, I don't know
why.
Fixed it in gorm and now works fine: It contains path of the document.
I confirm it is fixed now.
Multiple documents with the same name can be open from different
paths too.
The naming is a little bit different than on the Mac, but it is all
coming
from GNUstep AppKit now, so we are as good or bad as any other doc
based
application
-R
Following my message of March 9: 'How to implement help...' I saw in
the meanwhile You already implemented a sample from the Help menuItem:
so I can now study how it is done. ;-)
Cheers,
Patrick
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