Matt, Matt Palmer wrote: > > Hi, > > This announcement worries me. Firstly you mention the creation of yet > another web browser. I already have several perfectly good web browsers > on my computer and I suspect all of them are somewhat better (faster, > more secure etc etc) than TGHtml will be. TGHtml is not a web browser. It is a portable widget in the ROOT GUI classes to browse documents with hyperlinks (about 8 K lines of code). Fons may want to add more comments on this point. > > More worryingly though is the announcement about this help.root file. > Does this mean that the ROOT documentation will no longer be available > as good decent, normal, portable HTML? Will I be locked in to using > TGHtml to read the ROOT documentation? Or will I still be able to use > Mozilla or Firefox or whatever? We are not proposing to suppress the html reference manual. I never said that!! We want to improve the speed to get help on a particular object/class. There is no regression here, only improvements. If you want to use the slow procedure via the current web browsers, you can do it. Rene Brun > > Perhaps a simpler way of achieving this would be to provide links to > HTML documentation that open in an external browser (the mechanisms for > doing this are admittedly platform dependent). > > Thanks, > Matt > > Rene Brun wrote: > > 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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