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On 7/22/2003 at 1:50:06 PM, Craig Wilson wrote:

> I created a jar file with the hs file at the root and the other files
> in their subdirectories, and was able to display normally using
> jhviewer.  I tried putting myHelp.jar in c:\, in the project folder
> (where other resources are being found successfully), in the
> projectfolder\classes folder, and in the project\classes\myproject
> folder (where the *.class files are found).  I have
> 
> URL hsURL = HelpSet.findHelpSet(cLoader, "/myHelpSet.hs");
> 
> where cLoader is either null or obtained from
> 
> ClassLoader cLoader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
> 
> and it still isn't finding it.

If you want to use the ClassLoader from the current class (which is, I
believe, the same as specifying null), you have to make sure that the
JAR file that has the HelpSet is on your class path.

To do that, you can just create a JBuilder library for it and add the
library to your project.  As I recall, there was one version of
JBuilder that would balk at having a JAR file with no classes in it,
but I think that has been fixed.

The other option would be to create a ClassLoader for the HelpSet and
pass that to findHelpSet().  Something like this should work:

    File file = new File( "Help.jar" );
    URLClassLoader cLoader = new URLClassLoader(
       new URL[] { file.toURL() };
    URL hsURL = HelpSet.findHelpSet( cLoader, "/myHelpSet.hs" );

This is off the top of my head, but I think it should work.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath  [TeamB]