Xcode 4.5.2 Mountain Lion , Mac App
I follow the documentation precisely. The Help Folder and its subfolders are added to the projects /Resources folder and appears blue in color.
Folder References were added by xcode if necessary.
Whether I view the HTML file in Xcode or externally in a text editor, I see the new version of the file.
Inside the app, the Help pages all display, the anchors work, but the pages are older versions.
A particular file that is not being shown with the latest version is DgxFiles.html
It is located in the scheme below as ../pgs/DgxFiles.html.
When I access Help inside the app, I see an older version of the HTML file. It seems the old help files are cached somewhere.
App's Info.plist has
<key>CFBundleHelpBookFolder</key>
<string>HungryMeHelp</string>
<key>CFBundleHelpBookName</key>
<string>com.DrummingGrouse.HungryMe.help</string>
The Landing page,HungryMe.html has:
<meta name="AppleTitle" CONTENT="com.DrummingGrouse.HungryMe.help"/>
The folder I drag into the project is named: HungryMeHelp
The Help Folder structure is:
HungryMeHelp/
Contents/
Info.plist
Resources/
shrd/ <shared artwork>
English.lproj/
HungryMe.html <title page>
HungryMe.helpindex
pgs/ <the rest of the content pages>
sty/ <style sheets, generated list template>
scrpt/ <scripts>
I have:
0. Deleted /HungryMeHelp and re-added it.
1. Cleaned the project.
2. Reloaded Xcode
3. Rebooted Mac
Trash the following files in your Home > Library > Preferences folder
com.apple.help.plist
com.apple.helpui.plist
com.apple.helpviewer.plist
Trash the following folders in your Home > Library > Caches folder
com.apple.helpui folder
com.apple.helpdata
com.apple.helpd
com.apple.helpviewer
What am I missing?
Thanks for reading. Mark
I found answers to my Apple Help Viewer Cache questions here:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/312037-updating-an-app-help.html
http://macergun.blogspot.com/2011/06/dealing-with-help-viewer-cache.html
I found the posting below at cocoabuilder.com
As a result, I deleted existing copies of the app from my system.
The Help System updated immediately thereafter!
On Dec 13, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Graham Cox wrote:
With each update of our app, we typically change the help book. We're finding that the system is very poor at recognising this and caches old versions of the help which causes new stuff we add to be unavailable. While I can manually trash the help caches and force an update, this isn't something we can ask or expect of our users.
Search the archives, and you will discover that you are likely experiencing a well-known issue that has been around for a very long time. It typically only affects the developer, not your users. It is especially annoying to the developer if another, older version of the application is still on your computer, in the Applications folder or perhaps in the form of earlier build products that are still sitting around, because then trashing the help caches and forcing an update won't necessarily stop the system from using the old version of your Help folder in an older version of your application.
When I am working on my Help folders, I routinely compress all older versions of the application into zip files for the duration, and I trash the Help caches before every test.
The typical user trashes the old version of the application when they install the new version, and all is well.
--
Bill Cheeseman -
I just get mad about the helpd cache while developing a help book as anything I found on the web, including what is found here, about clearing the cache of 'helpd' turn to not work anymore (at list on MacOS 12 - Monterey).
I found what do clear looking at files opened by HelpViewer Networking process while my help (not updated) was opened using Apple 'Activity Monitor.app'.
It turns that the cache is now built in the Container directory within your Library Folder.
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.helpviewer/Data
In this directory you find your cache help files in the form of
.*
e.g.
com.johnsmith.johnapps.com.johnsmith.johnapps.help*1.0.help/
doing a rm -rf of this directory will clear the help cache used by HelpViewer for the help book you are developing
You still need to kill the helpd daemon for this to work.
e.g.
rm -rf com.johnsmith.johnapps.com.johnsmith.johnapps.help*1.0.help/
pkill helpd
Note that changing the version of your help book in the plist file does not help.
In my case even if I increase the version of the plist help book (see Authoring Apple Help) , the cache generated still have version 1.0 even if it has been regenerated after the version update.
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I have before worked with Python extensions and configured PIP to point to our artifactory in my company, now I would like to do the same with VS Code.
I would like to be able to change the path of where VS Code downloads its extensions, to our own artifactory.
We want to control what users have which extensions, and don't want them to be able to download freely.
Can anyone please help me to which file or configuration I can make to point it to another site?
This is not possible at the moment. There is already an issue concerning this feature https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/21839 .
You can however disable the Gallery as mentioned by Thally by removing the "extensionsGallery" part from VSCode\resources\app\product.json.
And offer the vsix you want your users to have via any differnt path for selfservice or even just preinstall them under %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions.
VSIX can be downloaded from the store for offline use as Mentioned by t3chb0t in his answer to how-to-install-vscode-extensions-offline
If you are still running into this, an updated answer is to use https://github.com/LOLINTERNETZ/vscodeoffline
So far it has worked well for us in a completely offline environment. The only gotcha that we have run into is that some extensions attempt to reach out and download additional things from github or elsewhere when first run which does not work if you are offline like in my situation. However, if you are online and simply want to control which extensions are available, I think this project will do the trick for you.
Anyway, by adding a product.json file to their user directory or setting env vars, your coworkers will be able to change the marketplace again: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/pull/674
As in the title, after updating the Paw (presumably version 2) client to Paw 3 - none of my .paw files will open.
Using the menu, all of my old files are now greyed out. Whenever I 'force' Paw to open my file in some way, the error I receive is as follows:
The document "__.paw" could not be opened. The file isn't in the correct format.
The file might be corrupted, truncated, or in an unexpected format.
This appears to be the case with every single .paw file I've created.
How can I migrate my original paw files to the new client? I see no feature to do so and am now severely regretting my decision to try the new features.
Sorry you had this issue.
This has been fixed in the latest release 3.0.4 it was an issue with 10.10. Can you drop us an email to support#paw.cloud if this persists.
Check to make sure you do not have the old Paw app in your dock. I went through upgrade as well and didn't realize I still had the old PAWs in my application folder.
I am currently beginning a project where we want to build an Interactive Whiteboard (educational activities) and deploy via CD-ROM. I want to build the project in HTML5 for it's interactivity and then somehow compile it to both .exe. and .dmg so when the CD-ROM is inserted it autoplays the 'Game'.
How is this possible? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
I already made a project using pure C (WinAPI) on github that can pack HTML files into single EXE using resources.
http://github.com/dns/WinAPI-Embed-Browser/releases
Use: res://programname.exe/test.html as path to access html files from your EXE file.
From here you also can hide the window border & just showing the content of your HTML app, or even running on fullscreen. This is very useful if you want to make interactive CD-ROM.
On Mac, you can use Delphi/Lazarus TWebBrowser control to load html files. However I don't know if mac program can access files from resource or not.
HTML 5 is a browser technology, so I think as long as the pc you are installing on has the latest browsers, installing your app should work fine.
Can you tell us why you want it as a CD-ROM based installation, where as you can easily host it online?
You may not need any .exe wrapping. Here is an approach.
Important: your autorun will be often disabled, [not so] quietly. Provide some instructions for running your application manually.
So:
Google for running a portable version of Firefox or Chrome from a CD. Have the browser prepared. Put it in a [sub]directory representing your CD.
Put your content there.
Create a .cmd file to invoke the browser with a command like,
FirefoxPortable.exe index.html
Create autorun.inf (details googlable) to call the above batch file.
Make a CD image from that directory. There are lots of CD burning applications that can do that.
Test.
plz anyone can tell me how to open our project at Appmobi XDK. i am facing a problem that i have install it but its not allow me to open projects. when i tried to open my project a message comes unable to open a project.
now i need your help guys.
Thanks
The very first thing you need to do is to go to xdk.appmobi.com (in google chrome) and download/install our xdk. (Need Java installed also)
During the install you will need to set a default appmobi directory. This is where your app files will be stored.
Create a new app from within the XDK. You can then click the edit the source code button in the tool bar to edit your code. Here you can update the file with your own code.
You can check out a video that explains the xdk at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWV8kOJlGmc Some things might have changed visually with the current version of the XDK, but essentially its the same.
Some things have changed/moved around the screen since we made the video, but essentially its functionally the same.
Check it out as it will give you tips/how To's to using the XDK.
Also, posting in our forums (forums.appmobi.com) will get your questions answered sooner!
When you save an html file "completely"(as opposite to "just html"), the html file and an associated resource folder will be saved. The interesting thing is that when you delete the html file, the folder will be deleted automatically.
The folder must not be some ordinary folder. What is it called and is it possible to do this programmatically?
I googled a bit but cannot find the answer because I don't even know what keywords should I type as I haev no idea what this is called.
I believe that the Microsoft term for this special folder is a 'Connected File', and I think it was introduced in Windows 2000 — in other words, it's a Windows/Explorer feature rather than an Internet Explorer feature. I haven't seen much about it, but this MSDN document could be a good starting point:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776887(VS.85).aspx#connected
Are you deleting this from Windows Explorer? I think it is a feature of that program, and not operating system. Try to delete it with any other file manager: FAR, Total Commander, etc