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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Translated IDs : yes !!! (if you want, of course).
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-12-20 14:58:29
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Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 01:00:49PM -0500, Eric Bischoff wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am pleased to announce that Stephan, Frederik and me reached an agreement
> > about should be done with the translation of the HTML file names.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if this is still useful at all, but I wrote for kview:
> 
> 1. A tool that extracts anchors from the original linuxdoc format into an
> index file
> 2. A class that allows display of these anchors via lookup from this index,
> the idea being that the index was installed with the docs. This class
> is called KHelpIndex and is in the kview sources (it's very simple).
> 
> So the idea is that to get context sensitive help, where the context
> can be specified by a string id, the programmer can just do
> 
>         helpidx->showHelp( "id" );
> 
> and the correct web page/anchor is opened.
> 
> It sounds like this can be updated to docbook without too much hassle
> (I'm not sure how the index generator will know how to figure out which
> html file is the right one for an anchor since jade seems to generate
> such weird filenames). I was however under the assumption that the
> khelpcenter guys were doing something like this too...?
> 
> Anyway, this requires that the ids not be translated, since the code needs
> to know the ids at compile time.
> 
Yeah, the .anchors file is already created. I will change the
invokeHTMLHelp
function of KApplication to use what your class does

Greetings, Stephan

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