[Pythonmac-SIG] Using AHRegisterHelpBook

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 4 May, 2009, at 18:38, Christopher Barker wrote:

> Kevin Walzer wrote:
>> Not all parts of this are relevant, since I'm using Tkinter and  
>> bumping up against Tk's limited support for displaying HTML, but it  
>> will give you an idea of the issues.
>> Since you're using wxPython, can't you just call either the wxHelp  
>> API (a bit complicated if I recall correctly) or simply create a  
>> simple HTML viewer? I think something like that is in the wxPython  
>> demo code.
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> With wx, there are two good options for doing your own HTML help:
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> use wxHTML -- this is simple and fast, and I think there is a help- 
> browsing app built in wxPython already, for the wxPython help. The  
> downside is that it does not support modern HTML (i.e. CSS, etc).
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> If you want full-on HTML, you can embed the system browser -- on the  
> Mac, that's the webkitctrl -- it works pretty well.
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> In the future, I hope wxWebKit will be robust enough to use -- it  
> may be now for things like basic help -- that would give you full  
> cross platform control over the browser component.
>
> Of course, just pointing the system browser at your help is quick  
> and easy.

Another option is PyObjC, it definitly allows you to integrate with  
the native Cocoa help API's.

Ronald

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