Creating Context Sensitive Help for Eclipse

[Guest]

Hi,

I use RoboHelp to create the online Help and then change some of the
tags so that the files can be used with Eclipse.
RoboHelp creates .h or .properties files for the context sensitive
help.
Eclipse, at least this is what the developers say, requires xml files.
I can easily create the xml file that is required for the context
sensitive help manually. However, it would be easier and faster if it
could be created or converted automatically in some way.
Is there a tool, script, and other method to create the context
sensitive help file?

Thanks,
Rakefet

[Peter Grainge]

As your question is more about Eclipse, you might like to look at the thread below which has some links that may help. In particular it mentions the Yahoo Eclipse group.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT/message/63273

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eclipse_tw/

[rlauriston]

I'm the moderator of eclipse_tw and I was just looking here to see if there was any info on customizxing RoboHelp to generate Eclipse output!

That sort of tool-specific discussion would really make more sense here than on eclipse_tw, though if anyone comes up with scripts or something like that they'd be a nice addition to our library.

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum

To help you with that, we need to know what customising is required. What is it that Eclipse needs that is not in the package out of the box?

I am familiar with using Eclipse to some extent. There's a topic on my site about how technical authors can use Eclipse to help with their work.

[Guest]

Hi,

To create context sensitive help I manually create a file as follows:
<contexts>
<context id="ElementsView" title="Moshe Dynamic Help .">
<description>This is the Dynamic help.</description>
<topic label="some related topic" href="some related topic.htm"/>
<topic label="another related topic" href="another related topic.htm"/>
<topic label="third related topic" href="third related topic.htm"/>
</context>
</contexts>

This file is not similar to the .h and . properties files that RoboHelp generates.

Another issue is converting the toc that Robohelp generates. I also do this manually using search and replace (had no time so far to write a script). Would also appreciate it if anyone has such a script.

Thanks,
Rakefet.