Re: [JPP-Devel] R: OJ built-in help

2009-11-25 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei Larry, mhm.. thats an interesting thought... thanks for that stefan Larry Becker wrote: > Help would be nice if it supports multiple languages, but this would be > a large translation burden. Some application's help end up just > restating the menu text with little embellishment. The bes

Re: [JPP-Devel] R: OJ built-in help

2009-11-25 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I've been wondering lately if short videos are a much better way to teach people software. It seems I always need a lot of pics in help documentation, and even that doesn't always cut it. I use an open source program called Camstudio to make my screencast videos. http://camstudio.org/ SS On Wed

Re: [JPP-Devel] R: OJ built-in help

2009-11-25 Thread Larry Becker
Help would be nice if it supports multiple languages, but this would be a large translation burden. Some application's help end up just restating the menu text with little embellishment. The best help is perhaps step-by-step how-to guides for specific processes. Larry On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10

Re: [JPP-Devel] R: OJ built-in help

2009-11-25 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Java has a built-in JavaHelp system that is HTML based. It seems to work well, and there are some extensions that have been written for it: http://jhelpdev.sourceforge.net/ http://www.mk-home.de/jhelpaction.html I've used this program before, and I know it works. I always thought it would be coo

[JPP-Devel] R: OJ built-in help

2009-11-25 Thread Giuseppe Aruta
Hi Stefan, it seems an interesting idea. I am working around the translation of Sextante help in Italian, with other people: writing the help in XML format seems quite easy On the other hand I have no idea how would it be possible to integrate the framework into OJ. AFAIR Openjump the merge used