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List:       gtk
Subject:    Re: portable help system?
From:       George Brink <siberianowl () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2011-12-10 14:37:34
Message-ID: jbvqre$4kv$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:05:15 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 15:56 -0500, George Brink wrote:
>> Are there any portable help systems in GTK? The ones which would be
>> universal for both unix and windows worlds?
> 
> All platforms have their own native help systems that generally depend
> on an external help application. There's currently no API in GTK+ for
> working with these help systems, short of launching some URI.

Well... yes, gtk_show_uri() should work. I think I would use this 
approach, at least for now. Thank you for reminding me.

But I thought about something similar to Qt's Assistant.
Or we can use CHM as a storage - we already have a lot of CHM viewers in 
*nix world and on Windows it comes by default.

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