[Sc-devel] Old style help links

[Scott Wilson]

On 2 Nov 2007, at 10:02, Till Bovermann wrote:

>
> On 02.11.2007, at 10:47, Till Bovermann wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> On 02.11.2007, at 00:28, Scott Wilson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Can I suggest that we don't add any more [old style help links]  
>>> to existing or new doc? AFAIK these were all replaced when the  
>>> html conversion was done, but some have crept back in. This  
>>> functionality may be deprecated or removed at some point, and if  
>>> we add them now it just means more work later, and that they  
>>> won't work in browsers.
>>
>> Thing with these [old style help links] is: they're easy to type...
>> Proposal:
>> - Have a command "HelpPage".asURL creating a URL
>> - Have a command Object:valueReplaceSelected replacing currently  
>> selected text in active Document with its return-value
> 	might be difficult, because URL is not text, but rtf-specific  
> stuff (?)

If I understand what you're proposing this is more or less done  
automatically by selecting text and Cmd-shift-L. If there's a help  
file with that name you'll get a link.

We shouldn't be adding rtf files either I think at this point.

S.