[jsword-devel] Help System (was New Developer)

[Aleksander Rozman - Andy]

At 12/27/2003, you wrote:
>Aleksander Rozman - Andy wrote:
>>>>>>>>- Help (this could be done with JavaHelp)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Or even a Book! I think the core job of displaying and searching 
>>>>>>>Bible data is very similar to JavaHelp's job.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Yes it is. We could probably use JavaHelp to display bible (with some 
>>>>>>modifications)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I think HTML is a much more broadly understood standard, and it allows 
>>>>>us to output to the web rather than a Swing JEditorPane too.
>>>>
>>>>To Web? I am sorry I didn't understand this...
>>>
>>>
>>>There are servlets that use the jsword engine to produce a website.
>>>HTML output is very helpful for this.
>>>
>>> > Will you use JavaHelp or not?
>>>
>>>I'm not sure there is a benefit to it at the moment.
>>
>>I mean for Help, not for displaying the bible... For standalone version 
>>of JSword I think it's quite OK to use JEditorPane, so that you don't 
>>need any external dependencies...
>
>To be honest I've not thought much about a help system.
>My design criteria would be that help text must be useful to several UIs, 
>including Swing and the web.
>So if JavaHelp requires input that can't easily be shared then I don't 
>like it much.
>Though there is a lot of overlap in functionality between JavaHelp and 
>JSword, the match may well not be perfect, but I know very little about 
>JavaHelp so I don't know.
>
>If you know about JavaHelp then please help us! So long as the help text 
>is usable to several UIs then I don't have a problem with it.
>
>Joe.
>

Mhm. I haven't worked with JavaHelp either but as far as I know, it has 
help system to be used together with XML or HTML files. It's quite easy to 
use, and I don't think it would be problem to use it in some ways you need 
them to. As I know it was intended for JFrame instances (since java native 
ways to handling help files is not so good (you can use JEditorPane, but if 
you need a good help, this will not be good enough. For usgae with servlets 
you could probbaly use browser directly wothout this classes...

Andy



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