You're right Larry, but I think we shall consider the people who cannot be on-line every time they work. And also thet probabily there are still places in the World where Internet is not so availabe whenever you switch on a laptop (e.g. in Italy! But I would like to know the opinion of Ravi from India). We probabily can leave both ideas open: 1) a connection to the wikipage as on-line help and 2) the possibility to put a small pdf with all the important information to know
regards, peppe --- Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > Actually I like the idea that the wiki IS the help. > We can put in a > menu item that simply opens the wiki help page. > This is the simplest > solution and consolidates all of the help work with > no duplication of > effort. Keeping PDFs up to date could be a big > effort. I have tried > to do this on other projects. One of the problems > is that once you > have published a PDF, it is around forever > regardless of how out of > date it becomes. The web is always up to date, > which is why most new > software uses web links for help. > > regards, > Larry > > On 9/4/07, Sunburned Surveyor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peppe, > > > > Maybe #2 is the way to go then Peppe. We'll need > to give some thought > > to how we organize the PDFs in a directory, and we > should still think > > about separating the text from the images in the > PDF files to reduce > > layout changes during translation. > > > > SS > > > > On 9/2/07, Giuseppe Aruta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- Sunburned Surveyor > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ha scritto: > > > > > > > I have thought about this question of > integrating > > > > help into OpenJUMP > > > > quite a bit. > > > > > > > > Here are some of my thoughts, if anyone is > > > > interested: > > > > > > > > [1] We could use the JavaHelp system. It seems > > > > fairly comprehensive, > > > > is being developed and maintained by Sun > > > > Microsystems, and offers a > > > > help system most users are familiar with. > > > > > > > > [2] We could simply open a PDF file as Peppe > > > > suggested. The only > > > > problem with this route is that the user will > have > > > > to have a PDF > > > > reader installed and OpenJUMP will need to be > able > > > > to find it. > > > > > > > > [3] I have considered putting together a > simple help > > > > viewer for > > > > OpenJUMP. This help viewer displays plain > text on > > > > its left pane, and > > > > images and image captions on its right. I > thought of > > > > this help viewer > > > > because it separates text from images, which > is > > > > important for ease of > > > > translation. > > > > > > > > Of all these, number [2] is likely the > easiest. > > > > Number [1] is the > > > > option that offers the most functionality, but > i > > > > think it is the most > > > > complex, and creates problems for translation > > > > because it combines text > > > > and images. > > > > > > > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > > > > > > > > Hi SS > > > there is a sample of [2]: MapMaker > > > http://www.mapmaker.com/. People can download > the > > > software or the help pdf apart. > > > If user put the pdf in a mapmaker folder, they > can > > > open it with an option on the help menu. > > > I think that this way is the easiest sinche OJ > users > > > can download apart the help. > > > More than this, if there is an embedded help, > this > > > will encourage users to discover new > functionalities > > > and to test the software > > > > > > peppe > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________ > > > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla > con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: > http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > > > Still grepping through log files to find > problems? 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