I have been using PODS for a few hours by now instead of the aging OnboardC-and got pretty angry about the incredibly bad help viewer. When you change to the PODS with a help viewer window open, all of its contents get garbled! So it is reloading time….
However, a right click on a link showed me that it pointed to a web server on my local machine-although it was running at an unusual port which changed after every start of the PODS. Here is an example of such a link-it will definitely not work on your machine:
http://127.0.0.1:3634/help/topic/com.palmsource.eclipse.tools.doc.user/docs/PalmOSDevSuite/Tools_Overview.html#997748
Curious as I am, I immediately opened a current link in my web browser-and alas, I was at the corresponding help topic-but now the Page was displayed in Firefox and all problems were finished. Even after I closed the Help viewer window, the online help still was accessible through Firefox. Now, that is astonishing! PODS automatically starts a web server when loaded into memory-just to serve up the on-line help! If that isn’t a waste of memory… .
To benefit from this yourself, do the following: Open up Help, and click on one of the links with the right mouse button. Then, you shall see a menu entry details. Click it, and a window with an URL shall show up. After http://127.0.0.1: there will be a few numbers followed by a /, just copy these into the link below instead of the PORT.
http://127.0.0.1:PORT/help/index.jsp
Into Firefox with it, and have fun. I am using this since 4 reboots on my Windows 2000 machine-so one can say that it is stable!
Tell me what you think about it!!!
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