package Padre::Help;

use 5.008;
use strict;
use warnings;

our $VERSION = '0.60';

# Constructor.
# No need to override this, just override help_init
sub new {
	my $self = bless {}, $_[0];

	# Initialize
	$self->help_init;

	return $self;
}

# Initialize help
sub help_init {
	warn "help_init, You need to override this to do something useful with help search";
}

# Renders the help topic content into XHTML
sub help_render {
	warn "help_render, You need to override this to do something useful with help search";
}

# Returns the help topic list
sub help_list {
	warn "help_list, You need to override this to do something useful with help search";
}

1;

__END__

=head1 NAME

Padre::Help - Padre Help Provider API

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The C<Padre::Help> class provides a base class, default implementation
and API documentation for help provision support in L<Padre>.

In order to setup a help system for a document type called C<XYZ> one has to do the following:
Create a module called C<Padre::Help::XYZ> that subclasses the C<Padre::Help> module
and override 3 methods: C<help_init>, C<help_list> and C<help_render>.

In the class representing the Document (C<Padre::Document::XYZ>) one should override the
C<get_help_provider> method and return an object of the help provide module.
In our case it should contain

	require Padre::Help::XYZ;
	return Padre::Help::XYZ->new;

(TO DO: Maybe it should only return the name of the module)

The C<help_init> method is called by the new method of C<Padre::Help> once for every
document of C<XYZ> kind. (TO DO: maybe it should be only once for every document type, and not
once for every document of that type).

C<help_list> should return a reference to an array holding the possible strings the system can
provide help for.

C<help_render> is called by one of the keywords, it should return the HTML to be displayed
as help and another string which is the location of the help. Usually a path to a file
that will be used in the title of the window.


=cut


# Copyright 2008-2010 The Padre development team as listed in Padre.pm.
# LICENSE
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.
