What: dgHelpBrowser
Where: http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/dgHelpBrowser.kit
Description: Advanced Help Viewer for Tcl documentation,
with contents tree, index lists, and bookmark panel.
Currently at version 0.3.4. Currently running on Win32,Linux-x86,SunOS-sun4u,OSF1-alpha. Other platforms on request.
Updated: 02/2005
Contact: dgroth (at) molgen.mpg.deHISTORY
DDG 2005-02 update in documentation, tcltk -> 8.4.9, tcllib -> 1.7, bwidget -> 1.7 and many more
SCREENSHOT
http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/images/dgHelpBrowser.gif
LV Oh, how I love this kit.
Just a few notes.
1. I see the line: anyone interested in implementing the _FormCmd on stderr after some action takes place - I'm uncertain what action it is.
2. There's an annoying Tk bug that no one's resolved that shows up in the use of the program. It isn't dgHelpBrower's fault, as far as I am aware. But I have a 2 monitor system. When I have dgHelpBrowser on the right hand monitor, then click on the Options Menu button, then on the html fontsize button, the sub-menu shows up way over on the left monitor. If anyone knows how to fix this, I would surely love to hear about it - and would love to see the fix integrated into Tk 8.5!
3. When one clicks on the help 'contents' entry, the cursor should change into some sort of 'busy' indicator to let the user know that something is happening, then change back when the processing is completed. While often things happen quickly, there are cases where the processing takes a while (the wiki and comp.lang.tcl entries, for instance) and one is left wondering what is going wrong.
4. Question - is it normal for the contents entries to require double clicks? That's what I am seeing here on my sparc solaris 8 gnome desktop.
5. Covering the docs for most of the extensions that appear in activetcl would really be useful - they are, in general, among the most popular. Other docs that would be useful would include things like BLT, OraTcl, listx, mclistbox, memchan, trf, trfcrypt, snack, oomk, tkimg, and tls.
6. Two things about $HOME/dgHelpBrowser.ini - first, even though it appears to be saving the font size change off, when I start the program back up again, it doesn't seem to take effect. Also, any chance the file name could be, at least on Unix, something like $HOME/.dgHelpBrowser (so it doesn't show up by default)?
