Re: How work NSHelpPanel?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 27 Dec 2008, at 00:20, German Arias wrote:

> Hi, I want make a help panel to my app, but I don't know how work
> this. In Mac dev center there isn't information about this class. In
> docs.sun.com there is information, but don't work. I do this: I create
> a new folder with the name English.lproj and, inside, another folder
> with the name Help. Then I create two files (in Help folder) with the
> names TableOfContents.rtf and Index.rtfd. Add a new method call
> showHelpPanel in AppController.m and connect this with the Help option
> in the menu. This method send the message
>
> [NSHelpPanel sharedHelpPanel] ,
>
> don't work. Then, I delete the folder English.lproj, and add a simple
> file with the name help.rft. Now, in Project Center, in Project
> Inspector a add this file in the field Help file. But, when I run my
> app, I get the error
>
> 2008-12-26 18:12:19.372 Test2[5361] File NSView.m: 523. In [NSTextView
> -initWithFrame:] given negative width
>
> any suggestion?


First create your help document as an rtfd or rtf using something like  
Ink.app.

If you are using the current copy of ProjectBuilder from svn, you open  
the project inspector, change from 'build attributes' to 'project  
attributes', and set the help file in that inspector.

If you are building your app manually, you can either rename your help  
file to have the same name as your application, or you ca add an entry  
in your Info-gunustep.plist to specify the name of your help file with  
the key 'GSHelpContentsFile'.