Well, as far as I have understood, you have to build help files in a folder such as mytoolbox\help\en_US (for English help). <br><br>Your help files must respect Scilab xml forma. Ffor an example, see the file joined (you can find many more examples in my toolbox grocer, available at <a href="http://dubois.ensae.net/grocer.html">http://dubois.ensae.net/grocer.html</a>) ; Pettersen toolbox -<a href="http://www.scilab.org/contrib/index_contrib.php?page=displayContribution&fileID=1145-">http://www.scilab.org/contrib/index_contrib.php?page=displayContribution&fileID=1145-</a> can also be very helpful: anyway, it has helped me.<br>
<br>Then you have to insert in scilab.star the following commands :<br>helps_dirs='mytoolbox\help\en_US'<br>help_title='my beautiful toolbox'<br>xml2jar('javaHelp','mytoolbox\help\en_US','my beautiful toolbox')<br>
add_help_chapter('my beautiful toolbox',SCI+'mytoolbox\/jar',%f);<br><br>And, with some effort, it should work.<br><br>I fear that it is not the best solution, but Scilab help on the subject is indeed rather tricky to undestand.<br>
<br>Cheers.<br><br>Eric.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/23 Dave Comer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmcomer@dmcmicro.com">dmcomer@dmcmicro.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br>
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I am working my way through the Scilab help file system with the goal of adding my own toolbox, help system. I noticed in the Scilab manual that there is suposed to be a variable %helps, which according to the manual is supposed to be loaded by scilab.start. However, in 5.1.1 there is no such reference to %helps in scilab.start, and there is not global variable %helps listed in whos. Is this an obsolete concept? If so, how does one add help to the help file path?<br>
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Dave Comer<br>
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