[maemo-developers] Installing HTML help files in Maemo and Symbian^3

[From: Timur Kristóf]

Hello David,

I am not aware whether such a path exists on Symbian. Probably it doesn't.
I'd recommend you to put those files into your app's resources, then Qt 
will embed them into your app's executable.

Then you can do this:

QString aSupportFile =
QSupportSystem.openSupportFile(":/help/file.html");

(The : at the beginning of the path means that it is located in your 
resources.)
Read more about this at http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/resources.html

This will spare you the need to install additional files alongside your 
app, and will also spare you the need of that ugly #ifdef.

Cheers,
Timur

On 05/16/2011 04:56 AM, David Talmage wrote:
> I'm sure some of you develop for both Maemo and Symbian^3.  I need some advice
> about deployment on those platforms.  I'm looking for a place to put support
> files, such as help files, that can't be made into resource files.  In Maemo, I'm
> putting them in /opt/usr/share/doc/myapp/.  Where does Symbian^3 keep such
> files?
>
> In my perfect world, each platform has a standard place for support files.  My
> application would learn the platform's name for a support file using a library
> call like
>
>    QString aSupportFile =
> QSupportSystem.openSupportFile("relative/path/to/the/file.html");
>
> Thus far, I can't find what I'm looking for.  I expect to resort to using cpp:
>
> #if defined(SYMBIAN)
>    QString aSupportFile = "/special/symbian/place/for/file.html";
> #elseif defined(MAEMO)
>    QString aSupportFile = "/opt/usr/share/doc/myapp/file.html";
> #else
>    SYNTAX ERROR: FIND A PLACE FOR file.html ON THIS PLATFORM
> #endif
>
> As always, I will receive with gratitude any clues you care to share with me.
>
> Dave
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