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 0.3.5. Currently running on Win32,Linux-x86,SunOS-sun4u,OSF1-alpha. Other platforms on request.
 Updated: 03/2005
 Contact: dgroth (at) molgen.mpg.de

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'''HISTORY'''

[DDG] 2005-02-28 update in documentation, tcltk -> 8.4.9, tcllib -> 1.7, bwidget -> 1.7 and many more

[DDG] 2005-03-03 added OraTcl,TLS,memchan and some small fixes (see below). added comp.lang.tcl. BTW can anyone provide and test OSX tkhtml shared libs ?

'''SCREENSHOT'''

http://goblet.molgen.mpg.de/images/dgHelpBrowser.gif
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[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.

[DDG] see [snitbrowser] somebody should implement the method _FormCmd

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!

[VK] I think this is very OS dependent. I saw similar behaviour on non-Tk application, but I am not sure right now. Wha tis your OS/PC BTW?

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.

[DDG] agree but I have always problems with those busy stuffs.

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.

[DDG] yes this ''was'' normal, now I changed it to single clicks!  

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.

[DDG] added memchan,tls and oratcl. oomk is already in (inside mk4tcl). mclistbox is quite old. I would use [tablelist] instead. Anyway if you wan't to add your own docs:
   * just unwrap the file dgHelpBrowser.kit
   * add the docus inside the html dir
   * edit contents.cnt,contents.htm 
   * rewrap
   * restart

You can also send me those changes and I might include it in the next release.

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)?

[DDG] done on [[tk windowingsystem]] eq "x11" and the fontsize should be rembered!
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