StrongHelp on Pi

If you open the ‘Apps’ window, click MENU over the !StrongHelp application and select ‘Help’ you get the error message File ‘SDFS::RISCOSpi.$.Apps.Misc.!StrongHelp.!Run’ not found. Similar error messages are produced if you double-click a stronghelp file. Re-running !StrongHelp resets the ‘Alias$@RunType_3d6’ variable to the correct value.

Weird. That worked last time I tested it. StrongHelp is under PackMan management so hopefully we can roll-out a fix that way in the next few days – once the London Show is out of the way.

Today I read any with StrongHelp (I mean 2.86b DE) on my RPi by doubleclick the manuals (e.g. from AppBasic). No problems.

Once !StrongHelp has been run then it will work OK henceforth. Its !Boot file only sets the variable ‘Alias$@RunType_3d6’ if it is unset when !StrongHelp is first seen by the filer. Somewhere else this variable is being set to the wrong value..

That looks like it was a screwup in my packaging of it, my apologies. I’ve made a new version, but my Pi power supply is having a sulk and I can’t test it tonight. You can install it by:

• Run PackMan
• Going to the iconbar menu → Sources
• Add a source of http://packages.riscosopen.org/packages/pkg/raspberrypi-testing
• Wait while PackMan updates its lists
• Click ‘Upgrade all’

If that’s OK I’ll roll it out into the main repository. In future I may use the above for testing other development packages, so if you don’t want those you might wish to remove that source entry afterwards.

I have searched the string with grep… any programs with a StrongHelp-manual inside (e.g.!Messenger, !Organizer) are setting this…

Edit: Sorry, I have not see the post from Theo Markettos.