[Paraview] Qt Assistant

Mike Jackson imikejackson at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 12:41:59 EDT 2008


Couldn't we add another macro for Paraview plugins in the CMake files  
where the end programmer specifies the html documentation file(s).  
Kinda like we have to specify the source files and other such items?

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Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Apr 23, 2008, at 12:34 PM, clinton at elemtech.com wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 10:23:32 am Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>> That's a good feature request, but it sounds deceptively difficult to
>> implement.  A plugin is encapsulated in a single shared object  
>> library, but
>> Assistant expects documentation files.  How can the shared object  
>> library
>> reliably point to the documentation files?  Does anyone have any  
>> ideas?
>
> Qt 4.4 has a new QtHelp module, and it looks we might be able to  
> add content
> from plugins.  In that case, the assistant wouldn't be used  
> anymore, and the
> help viewer would be just another window in the application.  That  
> would
> allow for viewing html pages embedded in a plugin and things like  
> that.  Or
> it might be possible to create a wrapper that can dynamically  
> create html
> from server manager xml.
>
> Clint
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