Displaying manual pages with VtDisplayHelp

Using this procedure allows you to quickly display manual pages that are already on your system by using the VtDisplayHelp(1vtcl) command. This script is provided for your convenience:

# Small script to show how to get man pages displayed using the
# help interface
#
#   man book is     cgi-bin/man
#   topic is      man?<topic>[+section>
# Otherwise
#    book is dir in /usr/lib/scohelp
#    topic is filename in that dir


proc txtCB {tree cbs} {
global bookw treew Topic Section

set book [ VtGet $bookw -value ]

# Tree seems to be the widget Tree string for Context sensitive help
# only use here when fails to give docHome

if { [cequal $tree "0" ]} { unset tree } else {
    VtDisplayHelp [keylget cbs widget] -book $book -tree $tree
    return
}

set topic $Topic
if { [cequal $book "" ] || $book == "man" }  \
{
    set book "cgi-bin/man"
    append fulltopic "man?" $topic
    set topic $fulltopic
}

set section $Section
if { ! [cequal $Section ""] } {
    global sectw
    set Section ""  ;# should clear widget
    VtSet $sectw -value ""
#format for search topic Section  is   man?topic+section
    append topic "+" $section
}


#echo $book
#echo $topic

VtDisplayHelp [keylget cbs widget] -book $book -topic $topic

}

proc hCB {book topic cbs} {

if { $book == "man" }  \
{
    set book "cgi-bin/man"
    append fulltopic "man?" $topic
    set topic $fulltopic
}

# VtDisplayHelp [keylget cbs widget] -book "cgi-bin/man" -topic
"man?ls"

VtDisplayHelp [keylget cbs widget] -book $book -topic $topic
}

proc ht { cbs } {
    pkeyl cbs
}

proc TabCB { cbs } {
    if { [cequal [keylget cbs mode ] "done"] } {
        VtSet [keylget cbs widget] -focusDirection NEXT_TAB_GROUP
    }
}

set Topic ""
set Section ""
set app [VtOpen Helptst]
set f [VtFormDialog $app.f -title HelpDisplay \
    -ok -okLabel Search -okCallback {txtCB "0" } \
    -cancelCallback "VtClose; exit 0 ;#" ]

set b0 [ VtPushButton $f.b0 -label Home  \
    -callback "txtCB junk" -helpKeyCallback ht ]
VtPushButton $f.bc -label Contribs  \
    -callback "hCB SCO_ENG scruz.html" -helpKeyCallback ht
set b1 [ VtPushButton $f.b1 -label ls  \
    -callback "hCB man ls" -helpKeyCallback ht ]
#set b1 [ VtPushButton $f.b1 -label file  \
#    -callback "hCB man file" -helpKeyCallback ht ]
set b2 [ VtPushButton $f.b2 -label Panner  \
    -callback "hCB XPanHelp BOOKCHAPTER-1.html.Z"
-helpKeyCallback ht ]

set bookw [VxText $f.book -label Book: -callback TabCB ]
# set treew [VxText $f.tree -label "Tree: " ]

set sectw [VxText $f.s -label Section: -textVariable Section
-callback TabCB]
VxText $f.t -label Topic: -textVariable Topic -callback {txtCB
"0"}

VtShow $f
VtMainLoop