wxWidgets/samples/help/doc/wxExtHelpController.html
Karsten Ballüder de5c0ba745 Added a sample to test wxExtHelpController. Should work with other
wxHelpController implementations, too.


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<H2><A HREF ="#DOC.DOCU" > <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=down.gif></A> class wxExtHelpController </H2><BLOCKQUOTE>
This class implements help via an external browser
</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DL>
<DL>
<DT><h3>Public Methods</h3><DD><DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.6"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>DisplayBlock</B>(long blockNo) </B>
<DD><I>Display help for id sectionNo -- identical with DisplaySection()</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.4"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>DisplayContents</B>(void) </B>
<DD><I>Display list of all help entries</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.5"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>DisplaySection</B>(int sectionNo) </B>
<DD><I>Display help for id sectionNo</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.1"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>Initialize</B>(const wxString&amp; file, int WXUNUSED(server)) </B>
<DD><I>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
documentation</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.2"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>Initialize</B>(const wxString&amp; file) </B>
<DD><I>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
documentation</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.7"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>KeywordSearch</B>(const wxString&amp; k) </B>
<DD><I>Search comment/documentation fields in map file and present a
list to chose from</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.3"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>LoadFile</B>(const wxString&amp; file = "") </B>
<DD><I>If file is "", reloads file given in Initialize</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.10"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual void <B>OnQuit</B>(void) </B>
<DD><I>does nothing</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.9"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>Quit</B>(void) </B>
<DD><I>does nothing</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.8"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> void <B>SetBrowser</B>(wxString const &amp; browsername = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.4">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER</A>, bool isNetscape = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.5">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER_IS_NETSCAPE</A>) </B>
<DD><I>Tell it which browser to use</I>
</DL><DL>
<DT><h3>Private Fields</h3><DD><DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.15"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> bool <B>m_BrowserIsNetscape</B> </B>
<DD><I>Is the viewer a variant of netscape?</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.14"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> wxString <B>m_BrowserName</B> </B>
<DD><I>How to call the html viewer</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.11"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> wxString <B>m_MapFile</B> </B>
<DD><I>Filename of currently active map file</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.13"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> wxExtHelpMapList* <B>m_MapList</B> </B>
<DD><I>A list containing all id,url,documentation triples</I>
<DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.12"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> int <B>m_NumOfEntries</B> </B>
<DD><I>How many entries do we have in the map file?</I>
</DL><DL>
<DT><h3>Private Methods</h3><DD><DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.16"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> bool <B>CallBrowser</B>(wxString const &amp;) </B>
<DD><I>Call the browser using a relative URL</I>
</DL></DL>
<A NAME="DOC.DOCU">
<hr>
<h2> Documentation </h2>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
This class implements help via an external browser.
It requires the name of a directory containing the documentation
and a file mapping numerical Section numbers to relative URLS.<P>The map file contains two or three fields per line:
numeric_id relative_URL [; comment/documentation]<P>The numeric_id is the id used to look up the entry in
DisplaySection()/DisplayBlock(). The relative_URL is a filename of
an html file, relative to the help directory. The optional
comment/documentation field (after a ';') is used for keyword
searches, so some meaningful text here does not hurt.
If the documentation itself contains a ';', only the part before
that will be displayed in the listbox, but all of it used for search.<P>Lines starting with ';' will be ignored.<P>This confuses DOC++, so I leave it out for now:
<TT>ifdef USE_HELP</TT>: public wxHelpControllerBase
{
DECLARE_CLASS(wxExtHelpController)
<TT>else</TT>{
<TT>endif
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<DL>
<A NAME="Initialize">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.1">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool Initialize(const wxString&amp; file, int WXUNUSED(server))</B></TT>
<DD>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
documentation
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><B>file</B> - - NOT a filename, but a directory name.
<br></DL><P>
<A NAME="Initialize">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.2">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool Initialize(const wxString&amp; file)</B></TT>
<DD>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
documentation
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><B>file</B> - - NOT a filename, but a directory name.
<br></DL><P>
<A NAME="LoadFile">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.3">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool LoadFile(const wxString&amp; file = "")</B></TT>
<DD>If file is "", reloads file given in Initialize.
@file Name of help directory.
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
</DL><P>
<A NAME="DisplayContents">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.4">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool DisplayContents(void)</B></TT>
<DD>Display list of all help entries
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
</DL><P>
<A NAME="DisplaySection">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.5">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool DisplaySection(int sectionNo)</B></TT>
<DD>Display help for id sectionNo
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
</DL><P>
<A NAME="DisplayBlock">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.6">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool DisplayBlock(long blockNo)</B></TT>
<DD>Display help for id sectionNo -- identical with DisplaySection()
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
</DL><P>
<A NAME="KeywordSearch">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.7">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool KeywordSearch(const wxString&amp; k)</B></TT>
<DD>Search comment/documentation fields in map file and present a
list to chose from.
@key k string to search for, empty string will list all entries
<DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
</DL><P>
<A NAME="Quit">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.9">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool Quit(void)</B></TT>
<DD>does nothing
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="OnQuit">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.10">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual void OnQuit(void)</B></TT>
<DD>does nothing
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="SetBrowser">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.8">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> void SetBrowser(wxString const &amp; browsername = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.4">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER</A>, bool isNetscape = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.5">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER_IS_NETSCAPE</A>)</B></TT>
<DD>Tell it which browser to use.
The Netscape support will check whether Netscape is already
running (by looking at the .netscape/lock file in the user's
home directory) and tell it to load the page into the existing
window.
<DL><DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><B>browsername</B> - The command to call a browser/html viewer.
<br><B>isNetscape</B> - Set this to TRUE if the browser is some variant of Netscape.<br></DL><P>
<A NAME="m_MapFile">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.11">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> wxString m_MapFile</B></TT>
<DD>Filename of currently active map file
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="m_NumOfEntries">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.12">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> int m_NumOfEntries</B></TT>
<DD>How many entries do we have in the map file?
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="m_MapList">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.13">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> wxExtHelpMapList* m_MapList</B></TT>
<DD>A list containing all id,url,documentation triples
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="m_BrowserName">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.14">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> wxString m_BrowserName</B></TT>
<DD>How to call the html viewer
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="m_BrowserIsNetscape">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.15">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> bool m_BrowserIsNetscape</B></TT>
<DD>Is the viewer a variant of netscape?
<DL></DL><P>
<A NAME="CallBrowser">
<A NAME ="DOC.8.16">
<DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> bool CallBrowser(wxString const &amp;)</B></TT>
<DD>Call the browser using a relative URL
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