Do we required to add Help menu on GUI? Or is it some thing for future enhancements? Please reply. Thank you
Rick Fortier
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Originally posted by Ashish Kulkarni: Do we required to add Help menu on GUI? Or is it some thing for future enhancements? Please reply. Thank you
I think that most people are putting some sort of online help. I think that launching it from the menu would be the standard way to do it. Now how you display it is another thing. I have seen the following ways discussed: 1. create a window and put it there 2. use a window that understands HTML tags 3. put the help on their personal website Here are the discussions I found on this forum: http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/000323.html http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/000725.html http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum25/HTML/000773.html The HTML way sounds like the slickest way, but installation sounds like a problem. It is probably better use an approach that does not have installation issues. Rick
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Peter den Haan
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Local HTML help within a JEditorPane does not have any installation issues. You can stuff the HTML file inside your jar and use ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream() to load it up (off the top of my head - YMMV). - Peter
Narayan Veeramani
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Can we use JavaHelp for providing online documentation? I guess we just need to install jh.jar and make sure this jar file is included in the class path?
Karl Fu
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Do we lose mark if we don't put help section in our GUI ? I don't see it in my assignments' spec !
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