Other Notes

These notes comprise other information collected during the course of development of the JavaHelp/JWS launch examples. They might be of interest or use to other developers.

• Dependencies
• Safe Properties

Dependencies

A quick overview of the dependencies of the various demo/help archives supplied with JavaHelp - taken from the manifest files. The ** denotes runtime arguments.

hsviewer
	jh
apiviewer ** -helpset api
	jh
	./hsviewer
	classviewer
	jsjar/apidoc
object ** -helpset Object.hs
	jh
	./hsviewer
	hsjar/object
UserGuide ** -helpset jhug.hs
	jh
	./hsviewer
	doc/jhug/
idedemo * Localised
	jh
	classviewer
	hsjar/idehelp
	hsjar/idehelp_de
	hsjar/idehelp_en
	hsjar/idehelp_ja
	hsjar/apidoc

jhsearch  command line
	jhall
jhindexer  command line
	jhall

Note that jhall.jar only seems to be used by the command line based tools. Since JWS is unsuited to running CLI based tools, there is no reason to supply it as a component for JWS launch.

'Safe' properties

The following properties are regarded as being 'safe' and are thereby usable even in sandboxed applications. The indented options are related to more specific things than are needed in our launch.

The locationByPlatform property is quite handy for HelpSets launched using HelpSetter. Normally HelpSets might be displayed within a HelpViewer that is directly controllable by the application, so the app. can set the window size and location most appropriate to the location of the app. or the app. component that called it to screen. For that reason, many HelpSets do not bother to specify window location. By invoking the locationByPlatform property, and opening the HelpViewer as the initial window, we can get it to open 'wherever is logical for the next window'.

	sun.java2d.noddraw,
	javaws.cfg.jauthenticator,
	http.agent,
	http.keepAlive,
	sun.awt.noerasebackground,
	sun.java2d.opengl,
	sun.java2d.d3d,
	java.awt.syncLWRequests,
	awt.useSystemAAFontSettings,
	sun.java2d.dpiaware,
java.awt.Window.locationByPlatform, // only property used in these examples
sun.awt.erasebackgroundonresize,
swing.useSystemFontSettings,
swing.noxp,
swing.boldMetal,
javax.swing.defaultlf,
swing.metalTheme,