[Pythonmac-SIG] Using AHRegisterHelpBook

[Christopher Barker]

Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Not all parts of this are relevant, since I'm using Tkinter and bumping 
> up against Tk's limited support for displaying HTML, but it will give 
> you an idea of the issues.
> 
> Since you're using wxPython, can't you just call either the wxHelp API 
> (a bit complicated if I recall correctly) or simply create a simple HTML 
> viewer? I think something like that is in the wxPython demo code.

With wx, there are two good options for doing your own HTML help:

use wxHTML -- this is simple and fast, and I think there is a 
help-browsing app built in wxPython already, for the wxPython help. The 
downside is that it does not support modern HTML (i.e. CSS, etc).

If you want full-on HTML, you can embed the system browser -- on the 
Mac, that's the webkitctrl -- it works pretty well.

In the future, I hope wxWebKit will be robust enough to use -- it may be 
now for things like basic help -- that would give you full cross 
platform control over the browser component.

Of course, just pointing the system browser at your help is quick and easy.

-Chris






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