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This article demonstrate the way to extend [[Eiffel Information System]] (EIS) within EiffelStudio to support more [[Eiffel Information System#Protocol|protocols]]. To support a new protocol in EiffelStudio, the only thing to do is to provide a new {{red|Help Provider}}. | This article demonstrate the way to extend [[Eiffel Information System]] (EIS) within EiffelStudio to support more [[Eiffel Information System#Protocol|protocols]]. To support a new protocol in EiffelStudio, the only thing to do is to provide a new {{red|Help Provider}}. | ||
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General
This article demonstrate the way to extend Eiffel Information System (EIS) within EiffelStudio to support more protocols. To support a new protocol in EiffelStudio, the only thing to do is to provide a new Help Provider.
Steps to Create a New Help Provider
Redefining ES_EIS_ENTRY_HELP_PROVIDER
Adding a New Kind of Help Provider
All known kinds of help providers should be written in class {HELP_PROVIDER_KINDS}.
An instance of {UUID} and a string of that uuid are needed in the class.
Existing example:
... frozen pdf: !UUID -- PDF help system once create Result.make_from_string (pdf_uuid_string) end ... pdf_uuid_string: !STRING_8 = "BA35A9BB-5B69-4BD3-88B3-FB8DAE5CA08E" ...
Registering Help Provider
Doing this to make the system really take the new protocol into account.
Added a line at {ES_SERVICE_INITIALIZER}.register_help_provider
This is an existing example:
a_service.register_provider (l_kinds.pdf, {PDF_HELP_PROVIDER})
