[Paraview] Qt Assistant

[Moreland, Kenneth]

That sounds good, Clint.  I'm going to make a bug report and assign it to you.  I'll target it for the 3.6 release since I don't think we can get it in time for the 3.4 release.

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: clinton at elemtech.com [mailto:clinton at elemtech.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Cc: Moreland, Kenneth; Paul Edwards
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Qt Assistant
>
> 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