/** \file browserhelp.c * use the default browser based help */ /* XTrkCad - Model Railroad CAD * Copyright (C) 2015 Martin Fischer * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include #include #include //#include "misc.h" #include "gtkint.h" #include "i18n.h" extern wBool_t CheckHelpTopicExists(const char * topic); #include "dynstring.h" #define debug 0 #define DEFAULTBROWSERCOMMAND "xdg-open" #define HELPERRORTEXT "Help Error - help information can not be found.\n" \ "The help information you requested cannot be shown.\n" \ "Usually this is an installation problem, Make sure that a default browser" \ " is configured and that XTrackCAD and the included " \ "HTML files are installed properly and can be found via the XTRKCADLIB environment " \ "variable.\n Also make sure that the user has sufficient access rights to read these" \ "files." /** * Create a fully qualified url from a topic * * \param helpUrl OUT pointer to url, free by caller * \param topic IN the help topic */ static void TopicToUrl(char **helpUrl, const char *topic) { DynString url; DynStringMalloc(&url, 16); // build up the url line DynStringCatCStrs(&url, "file://", wGetAppLibDir(), "/html/", topic, ".html", NULL); *helpUrl = strdup(DynStringToCStr(&url)); DynStringFree(&url); } /** * Invoke the system's default browser to display help for . First the * system's standard xdg-open command is attempted. If that is not available, the * version included with the XTrackCAD installation is executed. * * \param topic IN topic string */ void wHelp(const char * topic) { int rc; char *url; char *currentPath; assert(topic != NULL); assert(strlen(topic)); if (!CheckHelpTopicExists(topic)) return; TopicToUrl(&url, topic); rc = wOpenFileExternal(url); if (!rc) { wNotice(HELPERRORTEXT, _("Cancel"), NULL); } free(url); }