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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Context-Sensitive Applethelp With Contents and Index Pane
From: "David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" <dcramer@motive.com>
To: "Scott Eck" <scott.eck@endinfosys.com>,<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:21:08 -0600
Scott,
To my knowledge, that microsoft applet stuff doesn't do that, but you
could do it with some javascript. You could modify applethelp.xsl so
that it spits out something like the following. Then you can load the
page you want with
file://///server/path/index.html?page=files/feature_help_file.html. ou
probably want to have your real code look at the contents of the page
variable and reject it if it isn't valid. Anyway, this is just for
inspiration.

David

<html>
	<head>
	  <script>
function getSearchData() {
    var results = new Object();
    if (location.search.substr) {
        var input = unescape(location.search.substr(1));
        if (input) {
            var srchArray = input.split("&");
            var tempArray = new Array();
            for (var i = 0; i < srchArray.length; i++) {
                tempArray = srchArray[i].split("=");
                results[tempArray[0]] = tempArray[1];
            }
        }
    }
    return results;
}

function loadFrame() {
   if (location.search) {
        var srchArray = getSearchData();
        if (srchArray["page"]) {
            self.main.location.href = srchArray["page"];
        }
    }
}
	  </script>
	</head>
	<frameset onload="loadFrame()" cols="250,*" framespacing="0"
border="0" frameborder="0">
	  <frame name="contents" target="main" src="contents.pane.html"
scrolling="auto">
		<frame name="main" scrolling="auto" noresize
src="files/index.html">
		  <noframes><body><p>This page uses frames, but your
browser doesn't support them.</p></body>
		  </noframes>
	</frameset>
  </html>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Eck [mailto:scott.eck@endinfosys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:59 PM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Context-Sensitive Applethelp With Contents and
> Index Pane
> 
> Does anyone know how to call a specific html file into the right-hand
pane
> of the help generated from the applethelp.xsl stylesheet while also
> loading
> the contents and index pane? I essentially need context-sensitive
> applethelp, where our application can directly call a specific
feature's
> (html) help file in the right pane while _also_ loading the contents
and
> index pane on the left.
> 
> The simplest way I'm imagining is by calling the specific file name
after
> the index.html file name (e.g.
> file://///server/path/index.html#feature_help_file.html which is how
> RoboHelp WebHelp invokes a specific help html file, and doesn't seem
to be
> working with applethelp). (I get that RoboHelp uses Javascript to load
the
> pane files, while applethelp uses Java...). I need to call the help
file
> from our application, preferably in the form of a URL.
> 
> I've looked at the contents.pane.html and other applethelp related
files
> and
> they look so simple that I should be able to figure this out but
can't.
> I'm
> a complete beginner when it comes to java too...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Scott
> 
>