Re: Help Indexing

[Jerome Krinock]

> On 2017 Apr 13, at 16:46, Frank D. Engel, Jr.  wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am trying to create an Apple Help book … help buttons on the interface 
> trying to access specific pages using anchors, and these are not working.
> 
> I generated an index using the "hiutil" command, and when I reran that and 
> enabled verbose output (hiutil -Cavv ...), I got a bunch of output like this:
> 
> 
> Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: The operation 
> couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 76.)
> ...
> 
> The pages open just fine in a web browser, but it looks like the hiutil 
> command is trying to parse it as XML?  That obviously won't work... these are 
> regular HTML files, not XML.

I’ve been down this road.  As you’ve surmised, your anchors are probably 
failing because your help book is not being indexed.  The reason why it is not 
being indexed is because hiutil is much more strict than a web browser.  You 
need to get rid of those Parse errors, every single one of them.  Don’t worry 
about XML.  If I recall correctly, when I ran my pages through a good HTML 
syntax checker like https://validator.w3.org, it showed me the issues and after 
I fixed them and the syntax checker was happy, hiutil was happy, and all my 
anchor buttons worked.

There may have ben other details I forgot, so if someone else wants to jump in, 
please do.

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Help Indexing

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

Hi, I am trying to create an Apple Help book.  It is working if I choose 
the help option from my application's Help menu, but I have some help 
buttons on the interface trying to access specific pages using anchors, 
and these are not working.


I generated an index using the "hiutil" command, and when I reran that 
and enabled verbose output (hiutil -Cavv ...), I got a bunch of output 
like this:



Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: The 
operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 76.)
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: Error 
76, Description: The operation couldn’t be completed. 
(NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 76.), Line: 124, Column: 9
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: The 
operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 76.)
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: Error 
76, Description: The operation couldn’t be completed. 
(NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 76.), Line: 125, Column: 8
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: The 
operation couldn’t be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 5.)
Contents/Resources/English.lproj/pgs/doc70.html -- Parse error: Error 5, 
Description: The operation couldn’t be completed. 
(NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 76.), Line: 125, Column: 8



The pages open just fine in a web browser, but it looks like the hiutil 
command is trying to parse it as XML?  That obviously won't work... 
these are regular HTML files, not XML.



This is what I am using in the application to access the individual 
topics (this is in a method receiving "what" as a parameter):


NSString *locBookName = [[NSBundle mainBundle] 
objectForInfoDictionaryKey: @"CFBundleHelpBookName"];

[[NSHelpManager sharedHelpManager] openHelpAnchor:what inBook:locBookName];



What am I missing here?



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Re: NSProgressIndicator indeterminate

[Tom Doan]

> On Apr 13, 2017, at 13:35 , Tom Doan  wrote:
> > 
> > the indeterminate one has an almost imperceptibly lighter
> > medium-dark moving over medium-dark.
> 
> This suggests you have set your system appearance to Graphite instead
> of Blue (in System Preferences -> General), and it may well be that in
> the graphite version it´s harder to see the animation than in the
> default blue. Your physical environment (lighting conditions, monitor
> age, etc) might also have some effect on what you see. However, it´s
> hard to say whether your users will or will not see the animation.
> 
> IMO, it´s not worth worrying about the problem. Apple has decided
> that this new style of indeterminate progress is suitable, so it´s
> not your fault if they´re wrong. Anything clever you do to change
> the appearance could easily break the next time Apple tweaks control
> appearances.
> 
> If you feel that it´s going to be a problem for users, then you
> could use the spinning version of the indeterminate progress control,
> instead of or in addition to the bar version.

Thanks. I do indeed have Graphite rather than Blue, though Blue is 
same basic problem in Blue. However, the spinning wheel works 
fine, so I switched to that.

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NSProgressIndicator indeterminate

[Tom Doan]

I've been using determinate NSProgressIndicators for years and 
those seem to work fine. I recently added a indeterminate one for a 
particular operation. On first (and second and third) takes, I thought 
it wasn't working. Then I looked *really* closely and found that there 
actually is a *very* slight gradient moving across the bar. While the 
determinate bar is medium-dark gray moving over light gray, the 
indeterminate one has an almost imperceptibly lighter medium-dark 
moving over medium-dark. This seems less than ideal. Is there 
some setting that can change that?

Tom Doan
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Re: Xcode Cocoa Windows

[Quincey Morris]

On Apr 13, 2017, at 03:04 , LAURENT Charles  wrote:
> 
> How to proceed next   to  get  a single  window ?

Delete the storyboard, then create a new file for your project. In the 
file-type dialog, choose Application from the UI section, and you’ll get a XIB 
file like the one that the templates used to provide.


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Xcode Cocoa Windows

[LAURENT Charles]

Hello,


My question concerns   Xcode Interface   : the choice  between  1  window  
and   storyBoard

The book   Apress copyright 2017   macOS Programming for Absolute Beginners  
Wallace Wang
   still   creates  projects   using the choice   between  1  
window  and   storyBoard

The recent  update of Xcode Version  8 3 1   apparently   creates  at first  
only projects  with storyBoard

How to proceed next   to  get  a single  window ?


Thank you very much 


Charles 


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