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| Re: CDT help enchancement - Variuos questions [message #137876 is a reply to message #137631] |
Fri, 04 February 2005 17:39   |
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Originally posted by: alain.nowhere.ca
SpeedadeYxa wrote:
> Are there any patch or stuff ready for testing.
Yes the head and CDT-2.1
> Are there need of help with cooding.
Help is more then welcome, you seem to have some good ideas
if you can code it ... we'll accept it 8-)
> Hi,
> I'm interested to know what status the integrated help enhancement has.
> Reading bug 71240 indicated that there are activities in the same
> direction as I am looking. The diagram gives a good picture but on
> the same time raise some questions about the provider's capability.
> Specially what kind of format or structure will the information/help
> have.
> Some reflections which also applies for the normal help window:
> 1. Storage format (XML) should have usable tags.
> API and example tags are important.
> 2. Indexing should be able of multiple views, i.e.
> Searching for something can be sorted in any order.
> Then you can exclude what is irrelevant.
> Books/Chapter/Section/<tags>
> <tags>/Books/Chapter/Section
> 3. Hierarchy result presentation.
> Google has a good presentation. You can easily ready
> a short piece of the information without scrolling
> the hole document.
> A good presentation is:
> /Book/Chapter/Section/<hit summary
> 4. Sub query, i.e. a secondary query can be applied
> on the result set. When the total help data is large
> number of hits may be too long and a sub filtering
> is handy for tracking down.
> 5. Good content assistant help.
> Hover and F1 help should popup some kind of dialog/
> window (set focus F2). As example: Hitting F1 shows
> a hit list of 20 items (see 3), navigating to the
> one of interest, select Example or API and hit past.
> Dose the proposed implementation include something
> like this then I would be more than happy.
> Are there any patch or stuff ready for testing.
> Are there need of help with cooding.
> 71240: (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71240)
> diagram: (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=14398)
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