Tracy: thanks for the information. --Jim
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <tspr...@...> wrote: > > One would hope that the company that owns Flash, Flex and RoboHelp is > working on some integration. I have not seen anything myself yet. > > > > Here is what I did: > > * I use an external browser window to display help > * I chose to have two levels of context, "module", and "view". > * My navigation system always knows the current context. > * Invoking help in Flex uses ExternalInterface to call out to a > javascript function in the wrapper > * The wrapper creates or gets the reference to the help window, > and builds the url based on module and view arguments. > * The module defines the html page, and the "view" is an "#" > anchor in the url to navigate to the appropriate part of the page. > > > > My needs were very simple, and this simple approach worked > satisfactorily. The help authors needed only the module and view ids, > which were descriptive strings. > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On > Behalf Of jim.abbott45 > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 12:27 PM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] WANTED: Online help integration, authoring, best > practices (for Flex or Ajax) > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations about good ways to add online > help to Flex (and maybe Ajax) applications? In particular . . . > > 1) Is your help system integrated into the application or is it in a > separate (browser) window? > > 2) How do you achieve _context-sensitive_ linkage? > > 3) What tooling (i.e., RoboHelp, HTML editor, etc.) did you use? > > 4) What did your authoring to deployment workflow look like (and how > did you handle content changes)? > > ----- > FYI: I already searched FlexCoders, but all I could find that seemed > relevant was this post > (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/129245 > <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/129245> ) from > October and this one > (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/16032 > <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/16032> ) from, > gulp, 2005! And neither one had any responses (sigh). > > ----- > Specifically, some of my colleagues would like to do single-source > generation of our help content and then publish the content in > WebHelp/HTMLhelp form. However, we can't directly use that content in > Flex (3), because the HtmlText property of the Flex text controls only > supports a very limited subset of HTML. For example, our writer would > like to use lists and tables, but the Flex controls don't support that. > > Any ideas people? > > Thanks in advance, > Jim Abbott >
