For those who might have the same kind of desire, I publish this link to my (so far simple) version of such a n assistant -independent help browser, using the QHelpEngine framework.
https://bitbucket.org/snippets/Volker_Siepmann/gxLd6 A few catches: a) I am new to bitbucket and just hope it is accessible. b) It's python, not C++, but all looks very similar. c) I am completely new to (py)qt as well. d) There is no search tab yet, and my ambition doesn't yet reach for bookmarks, history, ... e) I don't publish the help-assembly documentation.qhc. Please feel free to use/comment/criticize (see c). On 1 August 2016 at 10:06, Volker Siepmann <volker.siepm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks so far for the answers. I need to chew on it a bit ... > evaluating whether I use the help system at all in this case (or just > push html to default browser). > For later (larger programs - I just ported a small program more-less > for a test to qt), I would however like to support contents, index, > and search. Let's see. > > On 1 August 2016 at 09:13, Christian Kandeler <christian.kande...@qt.io> > wrote: > > On 07/31/2016 03:17 PM, Volker Siepmann wrote: > >> > >> 2. Do I need to use QHelpEngine and the widgets provided by it? > > > > > > If you want to offer a GUI, it seems very likely you'll want to do that. > > Otherwise, you'd have to use QHelpEngineCore and basically rewrite > > QHelpEngine. > > > >> 3. Has any merciful programmer already done that job to provide a > >> ready-make help system with search, index, and table of contents? (Well > >> this is particular one is actually a pyqt question as I cannot utilise > >> it if it is only c++ -- still, given the source code, I could port it of > >> course. > > > > > > Sure, it's called Qt Assistant. > > There's also a help plugin in Qt Creator. > > > > > > Christian > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Interest mailing list > > Interest@qt-project.org > > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >
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