A little ST, and hooking up help

I have an excuse to do a little something in Smalltalk! So I'm firing up Dolphin
and relearning how to do it. I keep typing dots after the receiver ...

While I work to break that habit, I noticed that the help pages aren't coming
up. They are pointing to addresses like
http://www.object-arts.com/Lib/EducationCentre5/htm/systemfolder.htm .

What have I done to make this happen, and how can I fix it?

Thanks!

--
Ronald E Jeffries
http://www.XProgramming.com
http://www.objectmentor.com
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.

Ron,

> What have I done to make this happen,

Nothing.  It's a slightly sore point but the documentation was never
updated for Dolphin 5.

> and how can I fix it?

2 ways - both of which enable D5 to use the D4 documentation.

1) Download the EducationCenter from the OA web sits (see the D5
products download page) and install that.  The help links will then
default to the local files and should work

2) Change the method
DevelopmentSessionManager>>defaultEducationCentreRootUrl method to read

^'%1/Lib/EducationCentre%2!d!/htm'
    formatWith: self objectArtsUrl
    with: 4

This will now point the online help links at the correct (?) url on the
OA web site.

Note that in both options some of the links will still not be correct
because tools have been renamed (the ClassBrowser for example).  In
those cases you will need to go to a page that does work and use the
help navigation to find the correct page.

--
Ian

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Ron,

> I have an excuse to do a little something in Smalltalk! So I'm firing up
Dolphin
> and relearning how to do it. I keep typing dots after the receiver ...
>
> While I work to break that habit, I noticed that the help pages aren't
coming
> up. They are pointing to addresses like
> http://www.object-arts.com/Lib/EducationCentre5/htm/systemfolder.htm .
>
> What have I done to make this happen,

It's not you.  IIRC, OA has deferred creating D5 documentation until they
have an automated approach to getting screen shots.


> and how can I fix it?

FWIW, I simply install the help from D4 and launch it from the start menu.
However, one can do better, and there are instructions lurking in the
archives.

Have a good one,

Bill

--
Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:21:22 -0000, "Ian Bartholomew" <[hidden email]> wrote:

>Ron,
>
>> What have I done to make this happen,
>
>Nothing.  It's a slightly sore point but the documentation was never
>updated for Dolphin 5.

Why you B*st*rds!   ;->
>
>> and how can I fix it?
>
>2 ways - both of which enable D5 to use the D4 documentation.
>
>1) Download the EducationCenter from the OA web sits (see the D5
>products download page) and install that.  The help links will then
>default to the local files and should work

Sounds like the right answer, since even I am not on line /all/ the time.

Thanks!!


--
Ronald E Jeffries
http://www.XProgramming.com
http://www.objectmentor.com
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 14:27:25 -0500, "Bill Schwab" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Thanks!

--
Ronald E Jeffries
http://www.XProgramming.com
http://www.objectmentor.com
I'm giving the best advice I have. You get to decide whether it's true for you.

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:56:16 -0500,
Ron Jeffries <[hidden email]> wrote:
Object Arts has just turned the knob labelled "don't write premature
docs" up to, oh, about 35 :-)

Happy new year, Ron.

s.