15.7. Summary

After introducing the Eclipse help system, this chapter illustrated how to create and integrate your own online help. It showed how to make your help available from within the Eclipse Help window as well as by using the context-sensitive F1 key. The chapter also illustrated how to guide your user through complex tasks using cheat sheets.

References

Chapter source (www.qualityeclipse.com/projects/source-ch-15.zip).

Adams, Greg, and Dorian Birsan, "Help Part 1, Contributing a Little Help," August 9, 2002 (www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Online%20Help%20for%202_0/help1.htm)

Ford, Neal, "Centralizing Help in Eclipse," ThoughtWorks, June 21, 2005 (www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipsehelp)

Zink, Lori, "Understanding Eclipse Online Help," HP, February 2005 (devresource.hp.com/drc/resources/eclipsedoc/index.jsp)

"Dynamic Content in Eclipse Help System Pages," Eclipse.org, December 2005 (www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ua/proposals/xhtml/HelpDynamicContent.html)

Eclipse Help: Platform Plug-in Developer Guide > Programmer's Guide > Plugging in help