[Gambas-user] old Gambas2 help browser bug

[Stefano Palmeri]

Hi, all. Hi, Benoit.

This message is for Gambas2 users that miss some
pages in the help browser.

In Gambas2 the help internal browser is broken, at least on my system.
It can't open most of the links.

I noticed that browsing the help files with Firefox or Mozilla works
perfectly. 
So I thoughts: the pages are good... there should
be something wrong in the Gambas browser.

I tried to browse the pages with konqueror and Bingo!
konqueror enters in a endless loop if you try to open
lang?en or comp?en or whatelse. It seems that the question
mark gets konq confused, if there's a directory with the same
base name of the file named with the "?".

In fact Gambas2 browser opens with no problems index.html?en, that has
not its  own twin directory 

Well, I thought let's try to change the "?" with a neutral  "_".
Done! The help now works fine!!!

So, for newbies like me that need often to read the
help pages, I made a Gambas script. It's attached.
Compile it and run it as root. You will have a fully
functional offline help.

The code is really simple and you can check that
is not dangerous.

It needs 'sed' to be installed. Who doesn't have sed
in the PATH ? :-)

This is a temporary solution waiting for our supreme chief
to solve definitively the problem :-)

Best regards,

Stefano Palmeri


 

 
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