I’m asking this question here because I’m assuming this feature will require use of a plug-in.
Is it possible to take control of the Help menu? Add our own commands which open dialogues or formsInDialogue mode?
Hi Morley,
The Help menu opens plain-vanilla html/xml/css pages in a web browser. There is nothing fancy about it. The index.htm page has two frames: A frame on the left with “Contents” and “Index” tabs, and a frame containing a copyright notice (which you ought to leave intact) on the right.
The help pages are found in the directory Applications/Servoy/server/webapps/ROOT/client_manual. If you either launch client, press Help and then choose View Source in your web browser, or open the index.htm page in a web-authoring title or with a text editor, you will see the filenames of the html pages that are pulled into the frames. Pretty easy to take it from there.
I don’t have the Servoy experience yet that you do, but it seems that formInDialog is rather limited vis-a-vis the browser navigation, TOC and Index style of help in the built-in help. Perhaps the menubar plug-in from IT2Be would help you modify the Help menu – I haven’t had time to check it out yet.
kazar