Summary: | Help Widget ideas | ||
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Product: | Chameleon | Reporter: | Tom Kralidis <tom.kralidis@ec.gc.ca> |
Component: | Widget | Assignee: | chameleon-dev <chameleon-dev@lists.maptools.org> |
Status: | NEW | ||
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P2 | ||
Version: | 1.99 | ||
Target Milestone: | FUTURE | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: |
I don't see any integration with the widget documentation. There are (going to be) XML documents for each widget that provide this type of information (and lots more) that should be integrated with this type of help system.
Oh, ok, in that case, let's stick with what's done. So, if there are XML docs doing this already, will this be processed by HelpWidget.widget.php? I guess what I'm asking may be already be done here, hence no need for this bugzilla request?
updated version to 1.99
AFAIK, the help widget will pick out the appropriate help text from the xml files. Your idea makes me think more of a generic help interface than the actual content. I'm thinking that it might be cool to have the ability to launch a help menu in a context-sensitive way so that it can take you to the specific help item.
Changed target to 1.99 RC 1.
Changed Severity to normal.
I think the current help system is now complete using the EmbeddedHelp widget (renamed from HelpWidget). However, I'm going to keep this open as a FUTURE target because I want to track this idea for the next version.