On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: >> I am authoring help for my application and can't even get a simple >> implementation to work, let alone localization. I have connected the File's >> Owner showHelp method to the mainMenu in my NIB. Does anyone know a >> workable directory structure to use? My application is localized across >> English and German; can you use localized files, or do you need to put the >> translation for each help system in it's own directory? > > > The "Add Apple Help" chapter in my book, "Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X: The > Vermont Recipes (Second Edition, 2010)" gives a detailed explanation of how > to write a Help book using the new Snow Leopard technique, with sample code. > But you can't use this technique unless your application runs exclusively on > Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or newer. If your application also supports Mac OS > X 10.5 Leopard or older, you have to use the old Leopard-and-older technique, > and the current edition of Apple's Programming Guide kind of mooshes that up > with newer techniques in a very unhelpful way. Apple's own applications use > both techniques, depending on how old they are. (My book does contain > information about how to use both techniques in the same application, if you > really want to do that. It isn't too hard.) > > You can find my book at > <http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321670418>.
If you're like me and can't wait for the mail delivery, you can also get it much faster from Amazon as a Kindle edition. Regards Markus -- __________________________________________ Markus Spoettl _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
