I'm new to JavaHelp and haven't decided yet if I will use it. I'm not clear on one thing: do I have to distribute some file(s) to my users in order for their machines to work correctly with JavaHelp?
As it is, the JRE is big for modem users to download. If they will also need to download another file, it may become prohibitively large.
Mike
Hi,
there are several options with JavaHelp. If you plan to distribute a help set as electronic documentation for a Java application for instance, the user most probably has the JRE already or at least needs it for the Java application anyway.
For watching JavaHelp help sets from out of an application, a version of the JRE with Swing is needed. In addidtion, the JavaHelp runtime extension must be present in the JRE.
If you plan to use the help set for being viewed with a web browser, usually the browser needs to fulfill the same requirments. An alternative is to view the plain HTML topic files in the browser and use an applet to display the TOC tree without Swing.
For doing this you would need something like what is available at http://www.calcom.de/eng/product/hlpex.htm or at http://www.calcom.de/eng/dev/index.htm
Ulrich
