On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:58:26 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:10:52 Joe wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 +0000 (UTC) > > > > Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > > > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > > but it cannot find its help docs. > > > > > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > > Mine (2.0.9 on sid) says, and I quote verbatim: > > > > "Bugger, I couldn't find the helpfiles on the filesystem." > > > > The only Debian packages are librecad and librecad-data, both of > > which are installed. > > > > It's not a problem for me, as the 2.0.9 manual is on the Net, but > > the manuals for earlier versions appear not to be. > > Correct. Some of it might be that the "application preferences" > ->path tab, is totally empty for all 5 entries. I may take a look at > the data package to see where it put stuff and see if I can fill in > the blanks. > > Do you have any entries in that pulldown? > It has a Part Libraries entry, which I may or may not have put there myself, and the rest are empty. None of them refer to 'help'. /usr/share/librecad/qm contains a set of apparently language-based .qm files, but I can't find a sensible way of opening them. I suspect it has to be done through the Qt API, and this bit of program doesn't exist in librecad yet. -- Joe
