Unless I am totally missing something, with Xojo we have lost the easy way of doing a search through the complete available documentation, guides, tutorials etc, from ONE searchbox. Now I have to open up each and every PDF guide and search from there, just to make sure I have not missed something.
This seems like an important step back to me and I’d wish to have an easier way of finding.
Preview on OS X can open all the PDF’s in one shot & search them all at the same time
Select several, and open them
[quote=54291:@Norman Palardy]Preview on OS X can open all the PDF’s in one shot & search them all at the same time
Select several, and open them[/quote]
Oh that’s soo hackish! But okay, didn’t know that. Helpful!
Thanks
This separation into books is not practical. We waste time looking. I noticed that I no longer use this documentation because I do not know where to find good information.
[quote=54291:@Norman Palardy]Preview on OS X can open all the PDF’s in one shot & search them all at the same time
Select several, and open them[/quote]
ok, thank you Norman, but it’s a stopgap.
You can also use Preview (and other tools) to combine the four PDFs into a single PDF if you prefer that. I may consider making that available as an alternative if there is enough interest.
[quote=54291:@Norman Palardy]Preview on OS X can open all the PDF’s in one shot & search them all at the same time
Select several, and open them[/quote]
Well, I can open the various books as you described, but when I start typing into the searchbox, then preview crashes 3 out of 4 times…
I just wanted to search for information on SharedApplicationData and whether I can write there or not (OSX) … but as I initially stated here, finding useful information has become more than cumbersome.
Perhaps the books can be converted to HTML as well… I’ve noted that some students I give Xojo lessons to cannot download the PDF’s to the school systems, and the browsers cannot load them (adobe for some reason is not welcome on the school’s systems). It’s odd as well telling the students “pull out your Phones to load the references”…would definitely be better to have them available from online as HTML as well since the “no phones in class” policies… Just a thought…
For fast searching of Xojo Online resources and skipping over bogus material, years ago I was forced to create a custom search engine that contains only Xojo/RealStudio Specific information at http://www.xojodevspot.com/search . It’s there to use if it helps 
A quick search there
http://xojodevspot.com/search/index.php?q=is+SharedApplicationData+writable
yields that yes, it is writable but:
For application specific data use SharedApplicationData.
For user data (files to edit…) use SharedDocuments.
[quote=57027:@Matthew Combatti]
For application specific data use SharedApplicationData.
For user data (files to edit…) use SharedDocuments.[/quote]
I doubt that this information is still valid for Mavericks. I’m not able to create a folder from code, inside of SharedApplicationData.
Is your application signed?
Are you able to write to DomainLocal folder? (You should be able to) it’s the parent of ApplicationSupport (/Library)
I just tried with signed version and it is the same, it does not create the folder. In the same way I cannot write to SpecialFolder.Library.
I must say I hijacked my own thread here - for the SharedApplicationData issue I had already started this thread here: https://forum.xojo.com/8085-write-to-sharedapplicationdata
I’ve filed just such a feature request. In “iBookifying” the docs, things have gotten a bit odd (see my other reports).
Matthew:
the pdf are included in the Xojo archive: no particular need to download from anywhere
[quote=57261:@Tim Jones]I’ve filed just such a feature request. In “iBookifying” the docs, things have gotten a bit odd (see my other reports).
<https://xojo.com/issue/31554>[/quote]
I issued from google:
site:developer.apple.com pdf to html
and get:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/textutil.1.html
I let Linux and Windows users to search for their platform.
Nota: I do not run it, yet, to watch the results. Before posting, I tried and does not gets what I wanted:
textutil -convert html UserGuide-Development.pdf
returns the same pdf with html extensions !
You may get it working. Who knows ?
[quote=57296:@Emile Schwarz]
Before posting, I tried and does not gets what I wanted:
textutil -convert html UserGuide-Development.pdf
returns the same pdf with html extensions !
[/quote]
I don’t think that textutil supports conversion from or to pdf:
[quote] -convert fmt Convert the specified files to the indicated format and write each one back to the file
system.
-cat fmt Read the specified files, concatenate them, and write the result out as a single file in
the indicated format.
fmt is one of: txt, html, rtf, rtfd, doc, docx, wordml, odt, or webarchive
[/quote]
Ollie:
you are right: I do not read the pages correctly; if so I do not posted (nor tried):
From the description page (already provided link):
Sorry for the wrong advice.