When you set up the IBM® Eclipse
Help System, make sure that your workstation, operation system, browser,
and hardware meet the requirements described in this topic.
Browser requirements
To work with the IBM Eclipse
Help System, you can install Microsoft Internet
Explorer Version 6.0 or 7.0, or Firefox 2.0 or 3.0. To ensure that
all the functions of this version of the IBM Eclipse
Help System are usable, you must enable cookies and JavaScript in
the browser and disable the browser's function of blocking pop-up
windows.
Operating system environment requirements
To
work with the IBM Eclipse Help System, you must install an IBM Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 6.0.
See the following table for detailed requirements.
Table 1. Operating system environment requirements| IBM Eclipse Help System version |
Operating systems |
Operating system and JRE requirements |
|---|
| IBM Eclipse Help System for Microsoft Windows 32-bit |
- Windows XP Professional Intel 32-bit
|
- This version of the IBM Eclipse Help System includes
an embedded IBM JRE. You can remove it from the package if
you do not want to keep the embedded JRE. You must have JRE 6.0 installed
on your system to run the IBM Eclipse Help System.
|
| IBM Eclipse Help System for Linux |
- Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5 Intel32-bit
|
- This version of the IBM Eclipse Help System includes
an embedded IBM JRE. You can remove it from the package if
you do not want to keep the embedded JRE. You must have IBM JRE
6.0 on your system to run the IBM Eclipse Help System.
- On these operating systems, you can open the help system in the
base mode through the Konqueror browser.
- To display bi-directional characters, double-byte characters,
or multi-byte characters in the help system, install the corresponding
font on the system and set the font as the browser's display font.
- To support multiple languages, set the system locale to UTF-8
before starting the help system.
|
| IBM Eclipse Help System for AIX |
|
- This version of the IBM Eclipse Help System includes
an embedded IBM JRE. You can remove it from the package if
you do not want to keep the embedded JRE. You must have IBM JRE
6.0 installed on your system to run the IBM Eclipse
Help System.
|
Supported customization
You can configure
the help system with the plugin_customization.ini file. It is under
the main product plugin. You can set it in the start script.
You
can also change configuration parameters by editing the org.eclipse.help.base_<version
number>/preferences.ini file under the eclipse/plugins
directory, though default configuration is highly recommended.
You
can customize your help system by modifying the preferences.ini file.
Note: Do
not modify the following parameter
always_external_browser;
otherwise the help system might not work properly.
- always_external_browser
- For Microsoft Windows operating
systems, the default configuration of this parameter is always_external_browser=true.
When you start the help system in the stand-alone mode, this setting
helps you open the default browser of the operating system instead
of the browser embedded in the help system. You do not need to set always_external_browser=true for
the operating systems other than Windows.