OpenEuphoria

wxIDE & EuHTHelp.exw

• Posted by Kenneth Rhodes <ken_rhodes30436 at yahoo.com> Feb 05, 2006
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Matt,

I have been playing arround with Juergen's external euphoria
hypertext help utility program.  Its really very simple to use -

executing"
EuHTHelp.exw <search_string>

opens a browser to the appropriate "article" in the 
euphoria *.htm documentation.

Shouldn't it be fairly easy to add this functionality
to wxIDE either by passing a search string to EuHTHelp
using system_exec - or perhaps even incoporating
Juergen's search code directly into wxIDE existing
*.htm documentation help?

I'm thinking along the lines of instant hypertext help
with one key stroke - for example:  if the function key
F11 is not assigned - after entering the word "printf",
immediately pressing F11 the editor will either shell out
to EuHTHelp.exw which will launch an external browser of choice,
or the editor will open its native euphoria.htm help window
to the article for "system_exec.

Pete seemed to feel this could not easily be done with
Edita - perhaps I'm missing something. My guess is that
it should only take several lines of simple code to 
pass the search string for the current "word" in the editor
to EuHTHelp.exw using system_exec.

But maybe I am wrong - after all, I get lost and frustrated
very quickly trying to study the mountains of code involved
in almost any GUI project. 

Thanks again for all your work with wxEuphoria!




Ken Rhodes
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