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3 <H2><A HREF ="#DOC.DOCU" > <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=down.gif></A> class wxExtHelpController </H2><BLOCKQUOTE>
4
5 This class implements help via an external browser
6 </BLOCKQUOTE>
7 <hr>
8
9 <DL>
10 <DL>
11 <DT><h3>Public Methods</h3><DD><DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.6"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>DisplayBlock</B>(long blockNo) </B>
12 <DD><I>Display help for id sectionNo -- identical with DisplaySection()</I>
13 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.4"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>DisplayContents</B>(void) </B>
14 <DD><I>Display list of all help entries</I>
15 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.5"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>DisplaySection</B>(int sectionNo) </B>
16 <DD><I>Display help for id sectionNo</I>
17 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.1"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>Initialize</B>(const wxString&amp; file, int WXUNUSED(server)) </B>
18 <DD><I>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
19 documentation</I>
20 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.2"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>Initialize</B>(const wxString&amp; file) </B>
21 <DD><I>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
22 documentation</I>
23 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.7"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>KeywordSearch</B>(const wxString&amp; k) </B>
24 <DD><I>Search comment/documentation fields in map file and present a
25 list to chose from</I>
26 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.3"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>LoadFile</B>(const wxString&amp; file = "") </B>
27 <DD><I>If file is "", reloads file given in Initialize</I>
28 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.10"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual void <B>OnQuit</B>(void) </B>
29 <DD><I>does nothing</I>
30 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.9"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> virtual bool <B>Quit</B>(void) </B>
31 <DD><I>does nothing</I>
32 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.8"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> void <B>SetBrowser</B>(wxString const &amp; browsername = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.4">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER</A>, bool isNetscape = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.5">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER_IS_NETSCAPE</A>) </B>
33 <DD><I>Tell it which browser to use</I>
34 </DL><DL>
35 <DT><h3>Private Fields</h3><DD><DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.15"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> bool <B>m_BrowserIsNetscape</B> </B>
36 <DD><I>Is the viewer a variant of netscape?</I>
37 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.14"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> wxString <B>m_BrowserName</B> </B>
38 <DD><I>How to call the html viewer</I>
39 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.11"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> wxString <B>m_MapFile</B> </B>
40 <DD><I>Filename of currently active map file</I>
41 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.13"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> wxExtHelpMapList* <B>m_MapList</B> </B>
42 <DD><I>A list containing all id,url,documentation triples</I>
43 <DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.12"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> int <B>m_NumOfEntries</B> </B>
44 <DD><I>How many entries do we have in the map file?</I>
45 </DL><DL>
46 <DT><h3>Private Methods</h3><DD><DT><A HREF="#DOC.8.16"> <IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon1.gif></A> bool <B>CallBrowser</B>(wxString const &amp;) </B>
47 <DD><I>Call the browser using a relative URL</I>
48 </DL></DL>
49 <A NAME="DOC.DOCU">
50 <hr>
51 <h2> Documentation </h2>
52 <BLOCKQUOTE>
53
54 This class implements help via an external browser.
55 It requires the name of a directory containing the documentation
56 and a file mapping numerical Section numbers to relative URLS.<P>The map file contains two or three fields per line:
57 numeric_id relative_URL [; comment/documentation]<P>The numeric_id is the id used to look up the entry in
58 DisplaySection()/DisplayBlock(). The relative_URL is a filename of
59 an html file, relative to the help directory. The optional
60 comment/documentation field (after a ';') is used for keyword
61 searches, so some meaningful text here does not hurt.
62 If the documentation itself contains a ';', only the part before
63 that will be displayed in the listbox, but all of it used for search.<P>Lines starting with ';' will be ignored.<P>This confuses DOC++, so I leave it out for now:
64 <TT>ifdef USE_HELP</TT>: public wxHelpControllerBase
65 {
66 DECLARE_CLASS(wxExtHelpController)
67 <TT>else</TT>{
68 <TT>endif
69
70 </BLOCKQUOTE>
71 <DL>
72
73 <A NAME="Initialize">
74 <A NAME ="DOC.8.1">
75 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool Initialize(const wxString&amp; file, int WXUNUSED(server))</B></TT>
76 <DD>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
77 documentation
78 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
79 <DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><B>file</B> - - NOT a filename, but a directory name.
80 <br></DL><P>
81 <A NAME="Initialize">
82 <A NAME ="DOC.8.2">
83 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool Initialize(const wxString&amp; file)</B></TT>
84 <DD>This must be called to tell the controller where to find the
85 documentation
86 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
87 <DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><B>file</B> - - NOT a filename, but a directory name.
88 <br></DL><P>
89 <A NAME="LoadFile">
90 <A NAME ="DOC.8.3">
91 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool LoadFile(const wxString&amp; file = "")</B></TT>
92 <DD>If file is "", reloads file given in Initialize.
93 @file Name of help directory.
94
95 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
96 </DL><P>
97 <A NAME="DisplayContents">
98 <A NAME ="DOC.8.4">
99 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool DisplayContents(void)</B></TT>
100 <DD>Display list of all help entries
101 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
102 </DL><P>
103 <A NAME="DisplaySection">
104 <A NAME ="DOC.8.5">
105 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool DisplaySection(int sectionNo)</B></TT>
106 <DD>Display help for id sectionNo
107 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
108 </DL><P>
109 <A NAME="DisplayBlock">
110 <A NAME ="DOC.8.6">
111 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool DisplayBlock(long blockNo)</B></TT>
112 <DD>Display help for id sectionNo -- identical with DisplaySection()
113 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
114 </DL><P>
115 <A NAME="KeywordSearch">
116 <A NAME ="DOC.8.7">
117 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool KeywordSearch(const wxString&amp; k)</B></TT>
118 <DD>Search comment/documentation fields in map file and present a
119 list to chose from.
120 @key k string to search for, empty string will list all entries
121
122 <DL><DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true on success
123 </DL><P>
124 <A NAME="Quit">
125 <A NAME ="DOC.8.9">
126 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual bool Quit(void)</B></TT>
127 <DD>does nothing
128 <DL></DL><P>
129 <A NAME="OnQuit">
130 <A NAME ="DOC.8.10">
131 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> virtual void OnQuit(void)</B></TT>
132 <DD>does nothing
133 <DL></DL><P>
134 <A NAME="SetBrowser">
135 <A NAME ="DOC.8.8">
136 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> void SetBrowser(wxString const &amp; browsername = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.4">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER</A>, bool isNetscape = <!2><A HREF="#DOC.5">WXEXTHELP_DEFAULTBROWSER_IS_NETSCAPE</A>)</B></TT>
137 <DD>Tell it which browser to use.
138 The Netscape support will check whether Netscape is already
139 running (by looking at the .netscape/lock file in the user's
140 home directory) and tell it to load the page into the existing
141 window.
142
143 <DL><DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><B>browsername</B> - The command to call a browser/html viewer.
144 <br><B>isNetscape</B> - Set this to TRUE if the browser is some variant of Netscape.<br></DL><P>
145 <A NAME="m_MapFile">
146 <A NAME ="DOC.8.11">
147 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> wxString m_MapFile</B></TT>
148 <DD>Filename of currently active map file
149 <DL></DL><P>
150 <A NAME="m_NumOfEntries">
151 <A NAME ="DOC.8.12">
152 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> int m_NumOfEntries</B></TT>
153 <DD>How many entries do we have in the map file?
154 <DL></DL><P>
155 <A NAME="m_MapList">
156 <A NAME ="DOC.8.13">
157 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> wxExtHelpMapList* m_MapList</B></TT>
158 <DD>A list containing all id,url,documentation triples
159 <DL></DL><P>
160 <A NAME="m_BrowserName">
161 <A NAME ="DOC.8.14">
162 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> wxString m_BrowserName</B></TT>
163 <DD>How to call the html viewer
164 <DL></DL><P>
165 <A NAME="m_BrowserIsNetscape">
166 <A NAME ="DOC.8.15">
167 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> bool m_BrowserIsNetscape</B></TT>
168 <DD>Is the viewer a variant of netscape?
169 <DL></DL><P>
170 <A NAME="CallBrowser">
171 <A NAME ="DOC.8.16">
172 <DT><IMG BORDER=0 SRC=icon2.gif><TT><B> bool CallBrowser(wxString const &amp;)</B></TT>
173 <DD>Call the browser using a relative URL
174 <DL></DL><P></DL>
175 <hr>
176 <DL><DT><B>This class has no child classes.</B></DL>
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