I take it back. Its not working. Its acting even weirder. For a file that's missing locally... it works. It obtains it from the web at the /help/1.0/file.html location.
But for files which ARE present locally, it fails. I get a message such as: "Multiple Choices The document you requested (/htlp/1.0file.html) could not be found on this server. However, we found documents with names similar to the one you requested. Available document: - /help/1.0 (common basename)" And the /help/1.0 is a link. If I follow it, I can then access all the server based files. I'm at wits end. I cannot figure this beast out. Can anyone provide any guidance or pointers. Is there some other mailing list where folks know more about this subsystem? Again this is on Leopard which apparently has changed the help system. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:23 PM, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]
