[Qt-creator] feature request - add html page to qtcreator help system

Karsten Heimrich karsten.heimrich at nokia.com
Tue Oct 27 14:11:39 CET 2009


Hi Jens,

ext Jens Frederich schrieb:
> Hi list,
> 
> I want to add an external html page to qtcreator's help system, so that 
> I can integrate other API documentations.
> As a result it could also be possible to search through the external 
> documentation and to use F1 to jump to the 
> description of methods and classes outside of Qt4 API. 

If you are generating your documentation using doxygen, it is 
possible to let it output a help file for Qt Creator too. Theres 
already a blog about it here:

http://blog.dixo.net/2009/05/20/using-doxygen-help-in-qtcreator

Please note the patch mentioned there is already included the 
latest doxygen source.

> Is it already possible to use external HTML pages in the help system

Yes, but they need to be put into a qt help file.

> how can I convert them to a QCH-file?

The documentation can be found here:

http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qthelpproject.html
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/qthelp.html#qt-help-collection-project


Regargs,
Karsten



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