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)?
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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).
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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
