Hi,
Many thanks to all who replied, most especially Matt for your very
helpful screencast. The main problem seemed to be that I'd added a
'help file' entry to my info.plist that was screwing things up.
It seems like changes to the help book don't percolate through to
Xcode very well, especially in debug builds. When I make changes to
the html files the only failsafe way to get them to register is to
remove the help folder from the project and re-insert it. And
sometimes to delete the executable before rebuilding. Oh well, I can
live with that.
The only remaining problem is with links. I have a link between html
pages on the same level:
<a href=presets.html>Presets</a>
This works in Safari but not through Help Viewer. Any ideas?
Rev. Andy
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:31:14 +0100, Andy Bettis
<a...@andybettis.com> said:
Hi,
I'm trying to add a help book to one of my apps and am falling at
what
seems like the last hurdle. I've added a folder with the help files
to
my Resources group and added Help Book directory name, Help Book
identifier and Help file to my Info.plist file. When I run the app I
can choose my application help from the Help menu but when the Help
Viewer loads it says "Help Viewer cannot open this content". I've cut
down my top-level help html file to virtually nothing but I still get
the same message. It displays fine in Safari.
I've not been able to work out what's happening from the Apple
documentation (so far) - it refers to lots of plist entries that
don't
appear when I use the pop-up menu to choose them in the Xcode plist
editor and that don't seem to be used in other applications'
info.plist files. Am I missing something obvious?
This is almost always caused a failure to follow directions. You
must do
everything *exactly* as described by the documentation. I've made a
tutorial
screencast that emphasises the key tasks:
http://www.apeth.com/writersua/implementAppleHelp.mov
m.
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