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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 09:31:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rick Flashman <rflashma@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
Subject: Re: ST-Guide (was Geneva Help)
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.705270@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Ofir Gal wrote:
> And ST-Guide fits the bill. What is the commercial status of your Geneva
> Help and does it work like ST-Guide?
As I mentioned before, if people are interested, we would consider
writing a non-Geneva specific ACC/PRG version of our help system. It
would not take much, as it is already done. It supports multiple fonts
(no separate font loader needed), hypertext jumps, compressed help files,
Atari Clipboard, etc. Anyone with access to Geneva should be pretty
familiar with this.
Currently in-house we have two versions of it:
1. Window based, PRG version that is used in Geneva. Program running under
the Geneva environment does not bother to launch a help system, just
passes its help file to the Geneva Help system.
2. Window based, PRG non-Geneva version. This is built into NeoDesk 4 and
is executed when the user calls for help inside another multitasking
environment or when they are using dialogs in a window.
2.1 This non-Geneva version can also execute in a dialog (without a
window) for when the user calls for help from a static dialog box. This
is especially important in non-multitasking systems. It looks the same,
but the execution is different.
It would be very easy to compile the non-Geneva version to also work as an
ACC and document its pipeline documentation. Developers would first check
to see if it is already installed (either because the user is running
Geneva, because it is already running in memory, or as an ACC) before
launching an additional copy of it. Obviously, if it is already running
in memory, they just pass it the help file.
--
Rick Flashman, Gribnif Software Tel 413.247.5620
P.O. Box 779, Northampton, MA 01061-0779 Fax 413.247.5622
For customer support/information please email "gribnif@genie.geis.com".