Thanks for the explanation, Matthias. JavaFX appears to make adding help to an application quite simple -- when I get to that phase.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 10:12 AM Matthias Bläsing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > Am Sonntag, den 29.09.2019, 04:34 -0700 schrieb Chuck Davis: > > Matthias, is your use case possibly displaying help for your > > application? > > > > I ask because I'm thinking of attempting this in my app. The "modern" > > approach to have help in an external browser is really, really > > annoying. > > my use-case was extraction of information from XML. I used apache http > client to fetch the data, extracted it with some XPath expressions, > build html from it and loaded that into the JavaFX WebView. > > I wanted a "good" HTML renderer. For my use case this was massive > overkill, but it worked. Rendering "help" HTML in an embedded webview > would surely work equally well. > > Greetings > > Matthias > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
