Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#324 closed task

Change hardcoded lucide_en.hlp to reference %LUCIDEHELP% and set variable during install — at Initial Version

Reported by: Lewis Rosenthal Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: 1.4.0
Component: Lucide Core Version: 1.4.0
Keywords: Cc:

Description

This will help with NLS issues, as well.

The goals here are:

  1. Move away from a hardcoded filename in lucide.cpp;
  2. Allow for appending plugin-specific help guides (and others) to the variable;
  3. Allow for substituting any help file for Lucide's help file;

The test WIS currently sets/appends to the following in CONFIG.SYS:

  • HELP
  • BOOKSHELF
  • LUCIDEINSTALLPATH
  • LUCIDEHELP

We could even add LUCIDEHELPPATH for greater flexibility.

For plugins, the idea is to have plugin authors provide plugin-specific help and to append such files to %LUCIDEHELP% so they are loaded at once. The last page of Lucide's own user's guide will be titled Appendix and contain text indicating that third-party plugin help will appear in subsequent pages.

I have a test help file in progress for the GBM plugin which illustrates this concept.

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