Help files

[Michael Anckaert]

--=.cDZ,A6iplfc2_C
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:32:23 +0100
Miguel Coca <e970095@zipi.fi.upm.es> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:22:42 +0100, Michael Anckaert wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > > I want to  write the help files for GPA but I don't know if anyone
> > > already started with this. If you have, please let me know, so we
> > > can work together.
> 
> Not as far as I know. If you do it would be very useful.
> 
> As you may have seen if you read the list, we are now working on a new
> version that is quite different from GPA 0.4.3, so you should probably
> work from it. You'll need to checkout and install the latest copies of
> GPA and GPGME from CVS to use them.
> 
> > > If no one is working on this yet, I'd like some tips on how to do
> > > it. Let GPA open a browser to display HTML pages or something like
> > > that.
> > > 
> > I already started digging through the code and mayb I can use the
> > code from the license entry in the help menu to display a help text.
> > Is this a good idea? I know it's just basic, but we can use it to
> > start with.
> 
> That would be too basic, IMO. Better work with HTML for now, and we'll
> check how to display it later on.
> 
> There was a help feature for GPA planned back from the beginning of
> the project. Maybe someone who worked on it at that time remembers
> what were the plans for displaying the help?

Unfortunately, I'm not that much experienced in using gtk, so for now
I'll just start on writing the help in HTML.
I'll also see what I can get up with to display the HTML pages.

-- 

Greetings,
Michael Anckaert
	aka The XanTor
xantor@linux.be
OpenPGP Key: 0xC772D5C1


--=.cDZ,A6iplfc2_C
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAj3mW4AACgkQNXNxmMdy1cEMFwCfVi96byJ6D07FGwrgMEWo7feR
/zwAoJ/kYKSKm2tVWXOO5ugbTRbUb/HO
=0HoY
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=.cDZ,A6iplfc2_C--