For the benefit of others who may run across this horrible Help design... I was trying to create help for my application. Used Help Indexer to give it a remote root url to use overriding local help.
When I first put in the URL, I did it in the form, http://foo/help/1.0 Little did I know that Help does a non-intelligent concatenation of the URL with the path in the help. This results in the help viewer looking for http://foo/help/1.0index.html. Seems very simple right? Just add the / at the end. How hard could that be... Well turns out that this value gets cached. I've wasted an entire day because of a lack of transparency regarding what the help system does. I have to scan the entire file system to figure out where this was being stored. Turns out it was being cached in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.helpui/<application name> I erased the application's help cache directory and suddenly it FINALLY worked. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting really wierd results that make me think the Help system is > caching its source location somewhere. I changed the URL used in Help > Indexer for a network location for help. Sometimes the changes seems > to take effect and often it doesn't. Is it stored in preferences? Does > Help remember across invocations of an application? > > I'm originally had http://foo/help. No complaints, but it didn't read > anything. > Then switched to using http://foo/help/1.0 > > I uploaded my content. Now it complains that it can't find, > http://foo/help/1.0index.html. What happened to the directory > delimiter between 1.0 and index.html? > > So I added a / at the end of the root URL, http://foo/help/1.0/ > No change, same error. > > I changed it to http://foo/help1.0/ and I still got an error about > http://foo/help/1.0index.html even though that wasn't the path > anymore. > > Now I'm getting weird results where sometimes it complains, and > sometimes it shows the local page. > > I need more clarity on what the help system is doing. This black box > magic stuff is ok if it works, but when it doesn't its a HUGE waste of > time. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
