I will be working on integrating the html so that it can replace the
internal docs, but the user will have to explicitly set it up. Right
now, the tutorial can be accessed in this fashion from the UI.
To use the web browser, you've got to set an environment variable
DX_WEB_BROWSER. On MacOS X and Windows, this just needs to be set to
anything; however, on UN*X, set this to the browser you use, i.e. the
command to launch your browser (netscape, mozilla, etc.). Once set,
then it will use the web browser instead of the internal help viewer.
The only reason I'm working so hard on this is that the documentation
is really starting to fall behind some of the features. The internal
documentation is just too hard to try and update by hand; whereas the
html is quite easy.
David Thompson:
|It appears that > 60% of the people that have filled out the html
|documentation choice have chosen the new design #2. To me, that's a
|majority and I'd really like to start committing some of the changes
|I'm making with that regard. Now is the time to speak up if you see
|any kind of problem. I have redesigned it internally so it will
|support text based browsers better and included the search to the
|right of Index in the navigation bar at the top instead of at the
|bottom as a text link.
|
|If I don't hear anything, I will start committing this afternoon.
You mentioned not only making the docs available in this format, but also
possibly integrating it with the internal help system. Is this within the
scope of the changes you're talking about?
If so, regarding the latter, is the new help format an option? That is,
you can still use the built-in help if desired, right? How does the user
switch between the classic and the browser versions? And how, on UNIX does
the user tell DX how to process HTML view requests (e.g. netscape -remote,
etc.)
I think as long as the classic built-in help isn't being removed, it's fine.
Randy
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