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Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 [message #74625 is a reply to message #74567]

Wed, 26 January 2011 12:50

Jean[2]
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On Jan 25, 2:44 pm, Jean <jeanbilh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 12:18 pm, Paulo Penteado <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 24, 7:20 pm, Jean <jeanbilh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm writing a big application (GUI) and I need to provide a
>>> documentation to inform the user how to use it. I always been using
>>> online_help with success but the same call with 8.0 does not work. I
>>> get a
>>> % ONLINE_HELP: Starting the IDL onliine help assistant
>>> % ONLINE_HELP: Unable to obtain socker from help assistant
>
>>> Any idea what is going on guys ?
>
>> Does the regular (IDL's) help work?
>
>> Does setting the environment variable IDL_ONLINE_HELP_HTML_BROWSER
>> help?
>
> The regular IDL help work. I found out that using absolute path to the
> name of the html file used by the keyword BOOK works. It can display
> the html page but I want to use a adp file where the left part is the
> menu and the right part contains the various html pages. Doing so give
> me the 'socket error message'
>
> Jean

In case someone is wondering about how to fix that issue, I contacted
ITT and IDL 8.0 does support anymore the .adp files. html is the way
to go now.

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		Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 By: Jean[2] on Tue, 25 January 2011 11:44
		Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 By: penteado on Tue, 25 January 2011 09:18
		Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 January 2011 06:11
		Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 By: Jean[2] on Tue, 25 January 2011 06:04
		Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 By: David Fanning on Mon, 24 January 2011 13:34
		Re: my online_help works with 7.1 but not with 8.0 By: Jean[2] on Wed, 26 January 2011 12:50

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