HelpBook.osax

HelpBook.osax is a scripting addition to register and display Help Books in any bundles in Help Viewer.

Applications for macOS have help files written by HTML in own bundle. The help files is called Help Book and shown in Help Viewer. This is smart way to provide application's helps because an application and its help files will never divorce.

HelpBook.osax allows followings through AppleScript.

Show a Help Book of an application without launching the application through AppleScript.
AppleScript's application bundles can have own help book and the help menu will be enabled.
AppleScript's script bundles can have own help book.

History

1.2 -- 2016-12-12
- Mac OS X 10.6 or later is required.
- Added code signing.
- The description about appending a help menu into an AppleScript applet was has been removed from the manual, because the help menu for AppleScript applets does not apear in OS X 10.10 or later.
- Fixed : it cause to crash performing "regster helpbook" command against to a bundle which does not have the "CFBundleHelpBookName" entry in its Info.plist.
1.1.4 -- 2016-02-05
- Enabled support of Garbage Collection.
1.1.3 -- 2010-12-10
- Mac OS X 10.4 is re-supported.
1.1.2 -- 2010-08-24
- The installer package was build with PackageMaker.
1.1.1/1.0.3 -- 2009-11-21
- Added a command "HelpBookOSAX Version".
- Added an option "recovering InfoPlist" to "register helpbook" and "show helpbook".
- Fixed memory leaks.
- Added an installer to the package.
1.1/1.0.2 -- 2009-10-16
- Support Mac OS X 10.6
- Drop Mac OS X 10.4 from support targets.
- Version 1.1 is for Mac OS X 10.6.
- Version 1.0.2 is for Mac OS X 10.5.
1.0.1 -- 2007.03.20
- First release with English document.