[ReAction, Intuition] Making "HELP or ABOUT" dialog box or window.

[mateusz_s]

Hi,
Could you suggest me a way to create a separate holp/about
dialog box or window?

In my GUI I have a button called "HELP". If user press it I want to open
new window with scroll list containing some text and explanations.

The first thing that came up to my mind is just to open a new window,
and put a scroll list there with all the text.. is that correct?
Should I also point somehow that this window is the child of main window?



My GUI works both with ReAction and Intuition,
I mean if the ReAction is not available it creates standard
Intuition gui. So I need to implement both solutions..

[hooverphonique]

How about showing an AmigaGuide document in a modeless popup window?

[mateusz_s]

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

How about showing an AmigaGuide document in a modeless popup window?

interesting idea..

[Minuous]

Windows on AmigaOS don't have parents or children.

If you want some fairly straightforward code for a ReAction About window you could look at the source code of MCE or a similar program, although they don't use a scrolling credits list.

[Thomas Richter]

But intuition has Requesters. And I do not mean Easy or Auto Requesters, but "struct Requester". They work pretty much like child windows, without a frame around them.

[mateusz_s]

Originally Posted by hooverphonique

How about showing an AmigaGuide document in a modeless popup window?

This is actually cool idea and I used it.
But there is one thing.

So I am clicking the HELP button and then in my C code I have:

Execute("sys:utilities/multiview data/docs/help.guide", 0, 0);

The document is opened fine - but the hyperlinks doesnt want to work.
I got the message "Could't open data/docs/help.guide".
Sometimes that depends on system that I am testing (3.1, 3.2, 3.5)
works on one doesnt work on different.


When I click the help.guide icon it always works, also when I propt the full path in the shell:

1. RamDisk:> sys:utilities/multiview dh1:data/docs/help.guide

But when we are in the directory and the path is not full the hyperlinks in the document wont work:

1.dh1:> sys:utilities/multiview dh1:data/docs/help.guide

So there are some paths issues I dont know how to solve it.
In worst case scenario I will just make it single page without hyperlinks.

[thomas]

try

cd dh1:data/docs
sys:utilities/multiview help.guide

You can use newline characters to execute multiple command lines in one Execute statement:

Execute("cd data/docs\nsys:utilities/multiview help.guide", 0, 0);

[mateusz_s]

Originally Posted by thomas

try

cd dh1:data/docs
sys:utilities/multiview help.guide

You can use newline characters to execute multiple command lines in one Execute statement:

Execute("cd data/docs\nsys:utilities/multiview help.guide", 0, 0);

Yes, simple and brilliant solution, Thank You again Thomas!

[Nightfox]

Sorry, late to the party, but I wanted to give the proper answer to this question (the Intuition way).

The solution is easy. Literally. Use the EasyStruct and EasyRequest.

Here's an example based on what I did for my app.

struct EasyStruct aboutRequester = {
		sizeof(struct EasyStruct),
		0,
		"About",
		"APP TITLE HERE\n\n"
		"Version APP_VERSION\n"
		"Build date:  __DATE__ \n"
		"Build number: " BUILD_NUMBER "\n\n"
		"Developed by Your name here",
		"OK"
	};
EasyRequest(mainWindow, &aboutRequester, NULL, NULL);