A more lightweight (and read only) way to view help text
until the new help system is implemented. Removed some
commented cruft.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index 14081ab..1b85ef1 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
import idlever
import WindowList
from IdleConf import idleconf
-import aboutDialog
+import aboutDialog, textView
# The default tab setting for a Text widget, in average-width characters.
TK_TABWIDTH_DEFAULT = 8
@@ -78,27 +78,6 @@
#$ event <<do-nothing>>
#$ unix <Control-x>
-
-about_title = "About IDLEfork"
-about_text = """\
-IDLEfork %s
-
-IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python \
-by Guido van Rossum.
-
-IDLEfork is an official experimental development version of IDLE. \
-Succesful new features in IDLEfork will be mereged back in to stable IDLE.
-
-This version of IDLEfork is based on the work in stable IDLE version 0.8, \
-IDLE fork 0.7.1 released by David Scherer, and the VPython idle fork.
-
-See README.txt and NEWS.txt for more details on this verion of IDLEfork.
-
-WARNING: IDLEfork is at this stage alpha quality software, expect things \
-to be broken.
-
-""" % (idlever.IDLE_VERSION)
-
class EditorWindow:
from Percolator import Percolator
@@ -109,9 +88,6 @@
from Tkinter import Toplevel
from MultiStatusBar import MultiStatusBar
- about_title = about_title
- about_text = about_text
-
vars = {}
def __init__(self, flist=None, filename=None, key=None, root=None):
@@ -297,25 +273,15 @@
self.rmenu = rmenu
def about_dialog(self, event=None):
- #tkMessageBox.showinfo(self.about_title, self.about_text,
- # master=self.text)
aboutDialog.AboutDialog(self.top,'About IDLEfork')
- helpfile = "help.txt"
-
def good_advice(self, event=None):
tkMessageBox.showinfo('Advice', "Don't Panic!", master=self.text)
def help_dialog(self, event=None):
- try:
- helpfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), self.helpfile)
- except NameError:
- helpfile = self.helpfile
- if self.flist:
- self.flist.open(helpfile)
- else:
- self.io.loadfile(helpfile)
-
+ fn=os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)),'help.txt')
+ textView.TextViewer(self.top,'Help',fn)
+
help_url = "http://www.python.org/doc/current/"
if sys.platform[:3] == "win":
fn = os.path.dirname(__file__)