[APBeta] Help system

Paul Rodman paul at ilanga.com
Tue Jan 26 09:56:56 PST 2010


On Jan 26, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Kevin der Kinderen wrote:

> Don't know about others, but I would consider it worth the wait to have this feature added.
> 
> One problem I've had with help systems in the past (as a user, not a developer)... for some reason, Windows Vista and XP (not sure about Windows 7 yet) would block access to help files if they had external links in them. It was some sort of security feature. I could try to find some information on this if you think it might avoid a problem. I'm racking my brain now to remember the details.

Since this is an "internal" system (i.e. doesn't use the browser), I'm fairly sure it will be fine. If there are external links, they will be fairly rare. Once I have some test pages in place, I'll try it out on XP and 7.

Paul R.




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