<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 19:16,  <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > i promised simon on irc that i'd raise this on the sugar devel > list, so thanks for replying and reminding me. > > (to recap:  my "legacy" activity would like to be able to present > help and documentation info to the user via the local browser.) > > s page wrote: >  > <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a> wrote: >  > > can someone remind me if there's any reasonable way for an >  > > activity to display html help or documentation using Browse? >  > > >  > > normally i'd simply have the app run "firefox file:///path-to-file", >  > > but that won't work. >  > >  > In candidate-800, Browse can view >  > file:///home/olpc/Activities/Maze.activity/activity/activity-maze.svg , >  > so you would think you could tell it to launch and show your HTML help. >  > >  > I dunno if Rainbow restricts one activity from launching another. > > i believe it does, which has always been the problem for doing what > i would like to do. > > i think what might be useful (if rainbow is to be accomodated) is > a minimal-functionality html viewer.  i'd be okay, in my > activity, if the viewer didn't allow any off-page clicks or > scripts -- just html rendering.  doesn't seem like that would > cause a security issue, would it? </div>Another possibility is for Sugar to provide a dialog similar to the object chooser and view source windows with the mozilla widget embedded there. </blockquote><div> This would be my preference.  A standard "Help" toolbar button that opens a modal (Object Chooser-like) HTML window which displays a html file from the bundle.  An activity callback could be provided to return the base html filename at runtime, for context sensitive help. -Wade   </div></div>