[Python-Dev] RE: HTMLHelp for Py2.3.1

[Hernan Martinez Foffani]

[Thomas]
>[Hernan]
>> Standard .chm format already includes useful index data to do
>> context-sensitive search. A couple of years ago I made an Idle
>> extension to manage this. It wasn't difficult then, and I think it's
>> even easier now. The problem I found is that you pass the selected
>> text (the one you are looking for) to HTMLHelp system by calling a
>> Win32 API. 
> I know this, and how to do the windows side. What I meant was that I
> don't know enough about IDLE (or Tkinter) to implement the
> functionality to find the word under the cursor.

I'm pretty sure that some IDLE extension used to have such functionality.
It wasn't that difficult. It was a patch I did a couple of years now
and wasn't finish. If I can find it I'll tell you my approach.

>> You'll need win32all installed. That's the way PythonWin works, by
>> the way. I guess this makes it a no-no for standard Python, right?
>> 
> I don't think win32all wraps the HTMLHelp api, does it?

Yes, it does. I think Mark(?) did it for his PythonWin IDE.

> OTOH, I'm waiting for a reason to include ctypes with core python ;-)

So there is one. ;-)

-Hernan