Re: Context sensitive pop-ups (yehoshua paul)

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Well, 2000, that was another era. Single-source publishing to multiple
output types was in its infancy. State of the art was, what,
FrameMaker 6 plus WebWorks Pro?

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Jack DeLand <jackdeland -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> The client paid $300,000 for my setup. I am just fine with that, and they were, too.
>
>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 1:13 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> Around ten years ago Eclipse Help introduced an option to have CSH
>> calls pop up a box with multiple link choices.
>>
>> After playing around with it I decided it was more user-friendly to
>> have the CSH call open what seemed like the most likely topic and have
>> links to other likely topics there, since such links can be useful
>> whether the user is reading the topic in the online help, a PDF, a web
>> site, or some other format, and whether they arrive at the topic
>> through a CSH call or a link from another topic.
>>
>> I had some technical issues with multiple-choice popups as well:
>>
>> 1. They were not supported by single-source tools.
>>
>> 2. They were not supported by the standard CSH header (map) files we were using.
>>
>> 3. They were not supported by all frameworks, so migrating from
>> Eclipse to some other framework could be problematic.
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Jack DeLand <jackdeland -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
>>> FWIW, I used a similar setup in 2000. The popup was tied to a field that
>>> could be used in multiple procedures. The popup had links to the various
>>> topics, and bore the heading: "What would you like to do?" Each procedural
>>> topic link was an action item, like "Format the frammis". Yes, the popups
>>> did disappear once clicked, but that was seen as a plus. The end users went
>>> wild over it.
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