[squeak-dev] Loading external HTML help pages

Torsten Bergmann astares at gmx.de
Thu Oct 15 20:55:06 UTC 2009


For simple html pages you can use Scamper (a Squeak HTML
browser written in Smalltalk) to view the page within
Squeak. But I dont know if the code is still working 
and it is really "basic".

The best option would be to call the external native
webbrowser. You can use the "ExternalWebbrowser"
[1] project.


<windowsspecific>

  If your target platform is Win32 only you can "optimize" 
  by directly using the "FFI" project [2]/[3] and just run

    Win32Shell new shellOpen: 'file://...' 

  to open the browser. 

  If you want to bundle the html files into one single
  deployable file (a real help file) then use the HTML 
  Help tools [4] from the Microsoft SDK to create/compile 
  a *.chm helpfile from all your pages.

  You can then call the pages within the file using 

  mk:@MSITStore:C:\MyPath\...\myhelp.chm::/Tutorial001.htm

</windowsspecific>

Bye
T.

[1] http://map.squeak.org/package/a2cf0479-a33d-456f-b3ed-8f312c6c439d
[2] http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1414
[3] http://source.squeakfoundation.org/FFI.html
[4] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa163849(office.10).aspx
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