I am trying to make the help support for my mac application. I made the XHTML, HTML and the .helpIndex file. But I dont know how to make the .help file. My question is what is .help file? and how to make the .help file?
I am studying in the apple classreference for doing this. Below is the stuff I have copied this link
Creating a Basic Help Book
Once you create the HTML files containing your help content, you must organize them into a help book. To do this, create a help book folder and include the following items:
My Question: How to create a help book folder. I cant understand this. I have just create a folder with somename.help and copied the files to it. But that is not working. whether it is the correct way of creating a help folder.
The .help is the top level folder of your document set not a file. Like a Mac application is really a folder with a .app extension
At a base level you need to create your html based document set like you have done and then add the meta
tag named AppleTitle
into your top level .html file index.html (SurfWriter.html in the examples)
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title>Foobar Help</title>
<meta name="AppleTitle" content="Foobar Help">
</head>
add CFBundleHelpBookFolder
with a value of the name of your folder (Surfwriter.help) to your plist
add CFBundleHelpBookName
with a value of Foobar Help
to your
plist (matches the meta tag in your header)
add a custom copy phase to put your .help document folder structure into Resources
Should just work after that.
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