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[Melroy van den Berg <webmaster1989@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Miguel,

Thanks for your fast reply!
I indeed hope to hear from you soon, when the changes are done.

Kind regards,
Melroy van den Berg

2015-05-27 10:27 GMT+02:00 Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Sure, I can do it now that I’m back and “operational” after jet lag
> recovery ;).
>
> I need to point a virtual http server to the jenkins workspace, and set a
> redirection.
> .htaccess doesn’t apply here since I’m not using apache, but the
> equivalent in
> cherokee may be rather simple.
>
> I’ll ping back on this thread when it’s ready during this week.
>
> Miguel Ángel Ajo
>
> On Wednesday, 27 de May de 2015 at 10:20, Melroy van den Berg wrote:
>
> Dear Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo,
>
> Would you like to create a *new sub-domain*:
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org
>
> I understood that you're the only appropriate person for this.
>
> This link should refer (without URL changes, eg .htaccess or DNS) to the
> content of the latest build of Jenkins. At that moment the Getting Started
> URL will be:
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/Getting_Started_in_KiCad.html
>
> Then my patch will get accepted.
>
> Kind regards,
> Melroy van den Berg
>
>
> 2015-05-18 20:52 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> 2015-05-18 18:59 GMT+02:00 Melroy van den Berg <webmaster1989@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's a good idea to setup an URL like: http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/.
> > I don't know who has webserver / DNS access besides ajo? .htacess is not
> > that hard.
> >
> > You can either use the base_name directly. Or change other parts in the
> > code, so I can use for example:
> > event.GetId() == wxID_BLAH or event.GetMenuItem() == wxMenuItem_BLAH.
> Then
> > you can still use a switch without hashmap.
> >
> > Well it's about how complicated you want the code, for opening the online
> > docs.
>
> I simply want to avoid any switch case, by using the base_name directly as:
> helpFile = wxString::Format( "https://docs.kicad-pcb.org/%s";,
> GetChars( base_name ));
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Melroy van den Berg
> >
> >
> >
> > 2015-05-18 18:40 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >> 2015-05-18 18:35 GMT+02:00 Melroy van den Berg <webmaster1989@xxxxxxxxx
> >:
> >> > Hi Nick and Blair,
> >> >
> >> > @Nick
> >> > I choose for a separate wxString to explicitly make a difference
> between
> >> > a
> >> > local file & online URL. However, yes you can merge them together
> using
> >> > 1
> >> > xwString.
> >> > If you want, you can change it to your own taste
> >> >
> >> > @Blair
> >> > Thanks for your reply. The first remark I agree, but the current
> >> > documentation also lacks behind, so it already doesn't match the
> current
> >> > installed KiCad version ;)
> >> > About the second remark, this you can easily solve in the code.
> >> >
> >> > But for now, my patch only ensures that it opens the online
> >> > documentation
> >> > when no doc-package is installed or can be found.
> >>
> >> In my minds it would not be that great to include the patch as is.
> >> Firstly it uses the Jenkins URL directly, which is likely subject to
> >> change when we get the cmake stuff included with the docs.
> >>
> >> What I would like to see is that we get some more generic and nicer
> >> url redirects setup, such as http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/pcbnew.  Ajo
> >> has expressed his support on IRC, but is busy at the moment.
> >>
> >> By doing this we could get away of the hashmap stuff and just use the
> >> base_name directly to construct the url. I would like other peoples
> >> opinion on this approach.
> >>
> >> > Hopefully this patch will get delivered soon :)!
> >> > Thx.
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards,
> >> > Melroy van den Berg
> >> >
> >> > 2015-05-18 7:31 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >>
> >> >> 2015-05-18 0:44 GMT+02:00 Melroy van den Berg
> >> >> <webmaster1989@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> >> > Hi devs,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I created a patch which opens the online documentation page in the
> >> >> > web-browser, only when the local help file could not be found.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > This way the user don't get the pop-up message: 'PDF could not be
> >> >> > found'.
> >> >> > Instead they can read the latest successfully build documentation
> >> >> > online
> >> >> > :).
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Off-topic:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> It would be nice if online documentation becomes the default.
> >> >> >> This way the users always read the latest version of the
> >> >> >> documentation.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > See attachment for the patch.
> >> >>
> >> >> Why do you do the:
> >> >> if( !helpFile )
> >> >> {
> >> >> ... helpURL = ...
> >> >> }
> >> >> else
> >> >> {
> >> >> GetAssociatedDocument( this, helpFile );
> >> >> if(!helpURL.IsEmpty())
> >> >> {
> >> >> GetAssociatedDocument( this, helpURL );
> >> >> }
> >> >>
> >> >> Why not just
> >> >>
> >> >>  if( !helpFile )
> >> >> {
> >> >> ...
> >> >> helpFile = ...
> >> >> }
> >> >> GetAssociatedDocument( this, helpFile );
> >> >>
> >> >> By that it will just set the helpFile if the helpfile was not found.
> >> >>
> >> >> > Thanks in advance!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Kind regards,
> >> >> > Melroy van den Berg
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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