🚀 go-pugleaf

Clint Brewer wrote:
 
> Pavel Kramn� wrote:
> >
> > how I can create help file in JBuilder?
> > how I can assign help to some objects like button etc.
> >

>   The first thing that comes to my mind, is to create a separate frame
> that contains the functionality of the help file you want, say a text
> area that contains the main part of the file, or a list box with an
> index that the user can select help from. I'm not sure whether or not
> this is available in a ready built component, but it shouldn't take too
> long to construct it yourself, and then when the user clicks the button,
> you can show() that frame.

We are using Sun's HotJava bean in a manner similar to that
used for JBuilder's Help.  (My guess is they either rolled
their own HTML viewer for the right-hand panel, or are using
the HotJava bean -- that is, if that window wasn't written using
Delphi!  It's slow enough to be Java-based.)  I should say, we
are investigating the use of HotJava (for 30 days), because
we're not sure how far the $300 fee will eat into the potentially 
low profits of our application.  But the advantages of using
HTML are obvious (cross-platform, plenty of decent editors and
site managers, media-rich environment, etc.).

Our help isn't context-sensitive (at least not in this version),
so we haven't spent much time thinking about Pavel's second 
concern.

Paul (Pavel) Furbacher