enum MateHelpError

typedef enum {
  MATE_HELP_ERROR_INTERNAL,
  MATE_HELP_ERROR_NOT_FOUND
} MateHelpError;

The different error codes which can be thrown in the MATE_HELP_ERROR domain.

MATE_HELP_ERROR

#define MATE_HELP_ERROR (mate_help_error_quark ())

The class (or domain) of errors raised directly by the mate-help module. This is used as a value in the domain field of the GError structure.

mate_help_display ()

gboolean            mate_help_display                  (const char *file_name,
                                                         const char *link_id,
                                                         GError **error);

Displays the help file specified by file_name at location link_id in the preferred help browser of the user.

mate_help_display_with_doc_id ()

gboolean            mate_help_display_with_doc_id      (MateProgram *program,
                                                         const char *doc_id,
                                                         const char *file_name,
                                                         const char *link_id,
                                                         GError **error);

Displays the help file specified by file_name at location link_id within the doc_id domain in the preferred help browser of the user. Most of the time, you want to call mate_help_display() instead.

This function will display the help through creating a "ghelp" URI, by looking for file_name in the applications installed help location (found by MATE_FILE_DOMAIN_APP_HELP) and its app_id. The resulting URI is roughly in the form "ghelp:appid/file_name?link_id". If a matching file cannot be found, FALSE is returned and error is set.

Please note that this only displays application help. To display help files from the global MATE domain, you will want to use mate_help_display_desktop().

mate_help_display_with_doc_id_and_env ()

gboolean            mate_help_display_with_doc_id_and_env
                                                        (MateProgram *program,
                                                         const char *doc_id,
                                                         const char *file_name,
                                                         const char *link_id,
                                                         char **envp,
                                                         GError **error);

Like mate_display_with_doc_id(), but the the contents of envp will become the url viewer's environment rather than inheriting from the parents environment.

Since 2.2

mate_help_display_desktop ()

gboolean            mate_help_display_desktop          (MateProgram *program,
                                                         const char *doc_id,
                                                         const char *file_name,
                                                         const char *link_id,
                                                         GError **error);

Displays the MATE system help file specified by file_name at location link_id in the preferred help browser of the user. This is done by creating a "ghelp" URI, by looking for file_name in the system help domain (MATE_FILE_DOMAIN_HELP) and it's app_id. This domain is determined when the library is compiled. If a matching file cannot be found, FALSE is returned and error is set.

Please note that this only displays system help. To display help files for an application, you will want to use mate_help_display().

mate_help_display_desktop_with_env ()

gboolean            mate_help_display_desktop_with_env (MateProgram *program,
                                                         const char *doc_id,
                                                         const char *file_name,
                                                         const char *link_id,
                                                         char **envp,
                                                         GError **error);

Like mate_help_display_desktop(), but the the contents of envp will become the url viewer's environment rather than inheriting from the parents environment.

Since 2.2

mate_help_display_uri ()

gboolean            mate_help_display_uri              (const char *help_uri,
                                                         GError **error);

Displays help_uri in the user's preferred viewer. You should never need to call this function directly in code, since it is just a wrapper for mate_url_show() and consequently the viewer used to display the results depends upon the scheme of the URI (so it is not strictly a help-only function).

mate_help_display_uri_with_env ()

gboolean            mate_help_display_uri_with_env     (const char *help_uri,
                                                         char **envp,
                                                         GError **error);

Like mate_help_display_uri(), but the the contents of envp will become the help viewer's environment rather than inheriting from the parents environment.

Since 2.2