Tools for creating a help file

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Fri Mar 23 20:36:25 EDT 2012


Hi Klaus,
Haven't used revBrowser before but I got the example from runrev's web site
at
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/15963-how-do-i-display-a-pdf-in-rev

However, nothing displays in the browser image no matter what pdf file I
select.  Also tried it with a straightforward http:// url and nothing
displayed.

Any tips on how to get this to work?

Pete

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Klaus on-rev <klaus at major.on-rev.com>wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> Am 23.03.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Pete:
>
> > I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and
> > wondering what tools people are using to creat help files.
> >
> > I'm finding that it is much easier to use a word processor to write the
> > help text and graphics than trying to do it within the confines of LC
> text
> > fields.  I can't leave the help text as a separate file because that
> would
> > require the user to have the same wp program I used to create it.  I can
> > create a pdf version of it to get round that but I'm wondering if there
> is
> > some way of importing the help text into LC, retaining all the formatting
> > and graphics.  Is it possible to open a pdf file and display within an LC
> > application without starting a separate pdf viewer program?
>
> you could use a Browser Object to display the PDFs!
> Works on the Mac and will surely do on Windows if Acrobat Reader is
> installed.
>
> > Thanks for any guidance,
> > --
> > Pete
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
> Klaus Major
> http://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major.on-rev.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>
>


-- 
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>



More information about the use-livecode mailing list