Just to get things started, here is a link to the original tutorial files of my "getting started with Omnis Studio" tutorial. I'll post the original tutorial posts here soon as well: Omnis demo libraries.zip
Hi Bastiaan, I am an Omnis developer and currently trying to override the help.lbs to create our own help system. I have a bunch of pdfs all named [windowname].pdf and I have created my help.lbs library and am loading it up. It runs fine in combined runtime and dev mode but in plain runtime mode nothing happens. I have checked that the tool is being registered but it seems that $exechelp is not being called when I press F1. I found your post on the Omnis lists from 2011 and was wondering if you did ever get around to making a tutorial about this?
Sorry for the late reply, I don't check my blog often enough:) No I never turned this into a tutorial but I have given several sessions at EurOmnis about it.
In the combined mode it will call your help library for Omnis' internal help while in runtime it will call it for your application. My best guess is that the $helpfoldername property of your library isn't set. Omnis assumes you use their help system and will check that property to build the URL it sends to the help library. Without that property it will not do anything.
Hi Bastiaan,
ReplyDeleteI am an Omnis developer and currently trying to override the help.lbs to create our own help system. I have a bunch of pdfs all named [windowname].pdf and I have created my help.lbs library and am loading it up. It runs fine in combined runtime and dev mode but in plain runtime mode nothing happens. I have checked that the tool is being registered but it seems that $exechelp is not being called when I press F1. I found your post on the Omnis lists from 2011 and was wondering if you did ever get around to making a tutorial about this?
http://lists.omnis-dev.com/pipermail/omnisdev-en_lists.omnis-dev.com/2011-June/018239.html
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Phoebe,
ReplyDeleteSorry for the late reply, I don't check my blog often enough:)
No I never turned this into a tutorial but I have given several sessions at EurOmnis about it.
In the combined mode it will call your help library for Omnis' internal help while in runtime it will call it for your application. My best guess is that the $helpfoldername property of your library isn't set. Omnis assumes you use their help system and will check that property to build the URL it sends to the help library. Without that property it will not do anything.