New Win32 help format
Hello perl-win32-users, This is an excerpt from the Activestate change logs for build 630: changelog The style and content of the included online documentation has been extensively revised. On Windows, all the documentation is now provided in fully searchable HTML Help format. Documentation in conventional HTML format continues to be included only for Unix platforms, and can also be downloaded separately. /changelog The new HTML help format is great, and even allows you to browse through OLE type libraries looking for constants and functions! *BUT* My questions are... 1. Where can the downloaded separately conventional HTML help be downloaded? The changelog makes no mention of an URL, nor does the Activestate web site provide any clues that I can find. 2. Can I add to the new HTML help? Can installed modules be inserted? Or do I have to look in one place for the core documentation and another for user installed modules? -- Best regards, ryddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cu-online.com/~ryddler/conquest ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
RE: New Win32 help format
Active has a module called ActivePerl-HTML that will generate the TOC in HTML format. The newest version of PPM updates the HTML help when a new module is installed or removed. It would be nice if the Win32 help was updated too. Not sure if there's a way to do it. -Original Message- From: ryddler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New Win32 help format Hello perl-win32-users, This is an excerpt from the Activestate change logs for build 630: changelog The style and content of the included online documentation has been extensively revised. On Windows, all the documentation is now provided in fully searchable HTML Help format. Documentation in conventional HTML format continues to be included only for Unix platforms, and can also be downloaded separately. /changelog The new HTML help format is great, and even allows you to browse through OLE type libraries looking for constants and functions! *BUT* My questions are... 1. Where can the downloaded separately conventional HTML help be downloaded? The changelog makes no mention of an URL, nor does the Activestate web site provide any clues that I can find. 2. Can I add to the new HTML help? Can installed modules be inserted? Or do I have to look in one place for the core documentation and another for user installed modules? -- Best regards, ryddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cu-online.com/~ryddler/conquest ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
Re[2]: New Win32 help format
Hello Mark, Thursday, December 13, 2001, 11:35:02 AM, you wrote: EMC Active has a module called ActivePerl-HTML that will generate the TOC in EMC HTML format. The newest version of PPM updates the HTML help when a new EMC module is installed or removed. EMC It would be nice if the Win32 help was updated too. Not sure if there's EMC a way to do it. Yes, I am familiar with the tools of which you speak... I emailed the list with a script that traverses the lib and site directories and creates the html pod for you and then calls ActivePerl::DocTools::WriteTOC() to update the current TOC. If you missed it (it was when the list was choking a few days back and I never received it myself) I posted it on perlmonks some time ago at http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=55079 BTW, this script will convert all the core module pod as well as the siye modules you have installed that contain pod, so it will almost give me the conventional HTML help I was asking about, but it doesn't have the nice framed layout (and stylesheets) we've all grown accustomed to having. And not all the links line up quite right (e.g. the Components directory is absent with out the AS help) It is, however, nice for updating the existing HTML help system after installation of new modules that don't update the POD themselves. I would love to be able to extend the capabilities of the script to include updating the Win32 HTML help. Maybe there's a way... Maybe there *will* be a way ;) -- Best regards, ryddler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cu-online.com/~ryddler/conquest ___ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
