2012/1/9 Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com>: > Hi Andras, > > On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 23:56 +0100, Andras Timar wrote: >> I've just found this feature, soffice -h displays a dialog box on >> Windows with some help text. > > Heh - what fun :-) > >> Problems: >> 1. Dialog is not localisable. Help text comes from const char arrays >> in desktop/source/app/cmdlinehelp.cxx > > Hey ho - it's reliable and quick to get I suppose; but I see no real > problems moving it out into a .src file and translating it. > >> 2. Help text is clipped, there is not enough room on the dialog. >> 3. If I resized the dialog, it would not fit on a 1024x768 screen. > > It's all pretty horrible really; we have this beautiful document / > layout engine and we go and do nasty things like this for (essentially) > pages of the documentation ;-) Could we not throw up the help browser > instead showing a page with this content ? There is already just such a > help page ;-) presumably it is already translated, and then perhaps we > could kill those strings in cmdlinehelp.cxx almost completely. >
Indeed, there is helpcontent2/source/text/shared/guide/start_parameters.xhp but it is outdated. Maybe I can update it quickly... I'll also try what Stephan suggested, i.e. if we can print to stdout in Windows, too. Andras _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
