Hello Axel,
Thank you very much for your precise clarification.
To understand your design let me ask you slightly different question.
Is it possible to create the ROOT HELP file from its HTML counterpart?
Thank you,
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Best regards
Valeri
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Naumann [mailto:axel-naumann@gmx.de]
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:50 AM
> To: Valeri Fine
> Cc: 'Thomas Bretz'; roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch
> Subject: RE: [ROOT] THtml and Contet menu
>
> Hi Valeri,
> as Rene pointed out, there will be both .html and .root. The root file
> contains objects - storing those in html introduces an overhead that's not
> worth it. So instead of creating the application around a data format,
> there will be a data format that suits the application. Browsers read
> html, root reads root files. The root file will not replace the html doc;
> there will be an additional online help. Both output formats - html files
> and the online html help (and any other, non-html formats that people
> implement) - are generated from the objects stored in the root file.
>
> Cheers, Axel.
>
> > Hello Rene,
> >
> > Some question inspired by this discussion.
> >
> >> We intend to use this class to browse any html document and in
> >> particular
> >> the ROOT documentation itself that will be available in super compressed
> >> form in $ROOTSYS/etc/help.root.
> >
> >
> > Why do you want to save it in the very "root" format?
> > With the plain HTML one could have used it with and with no ROOT.
> >
> > Are you going to repeat the Microsoft approach?
> > They indeed had the own binary format for HELP files but then . . .
> >
> > The HTML text file can be zipped just one care about the file size. For
> > example,
> > Window XP can read transparently the files within ZIP archive without
> > bothering
> > the user to uncompress it first. ROOT can do that also. I mean, instead
> > of
> > reading the ROOT file with the help information; ROOT can unzip the text
> > file with
> > the HTML inside.
> >
> > By the way, it would have made it fully compatible with the corresponding
> > Qt text
> > widgets.
> >
> > As result, our Qt users will enjoy this format with no extra effort also.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps, Valeri
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Thomas,
> >>
> >> Good that you ask this question!
> >>
> >> We are just about to introduce a new class TGHtml.
> >> We intend to use this class to browse any html document and in
> >> particular
> >> the ROOT documentation itself that will be available in super compressed
> >> form in $ROOTSYS/etc/help.root.
> >> Axel Naumann is working on a modification of THtml that will generate
> >> help.root
> >> file automatically (or any user classes).
> >> The idea that you should be able to get quickly the help from the
> >> browser,
> >> the command line, the pad, etc.
> >>
> >> The TGHtml class could be used to browse any kind of document. One could
> >> even
> >> imagine that stdout from ROOT could be automatically hyperlinked with
> >> this
> >> class.
> >>
> >> TGHtml will be introduced in CVS before the production release in
> >> December.
> >> The adaptation to the ROOT help system is scheduled for the first
> >> quarter of
> >> next year.
> >>
> >> Rene Brun
> >>
> >> Thomas Bretz wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Dear all,
> >> >
> >> > I have a suggestion:
> >> > It would be nice if there would be an option in the context menu of a
> >> > class drawn to a pad (eg TH1F in a canvas) to show the class
> >> description
> >> > as plain text on the console. I don't know how a implementation could
> >> > look like without storing the whole class description in the
> >> executable
> >> > and without starting a browser. Maybe it is possible to compile the
> >> > class description text into a root file which can be opened by the
> >> user.
> >> > If such a 'docu' file is open the corresponding help-entry appears in
> >> > the context menus. Through the TBrowser now all class descriptions
> >> would
> >> > be acessible. This gives an easy interface to an online-help in
> >> programs.
> >> >
> >> > What do you think?
> >> >
> >> > Best regards,
> >> > Thomas.
> >
> >
> >
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