HTML help links within ROOT's GUI are outdated

[seligman]

This a very low-priority issue, since I think it’s existed for years and the students in my summer tutorial only noticed it this year:

1. The HTML viewer and in-menu help links are obsolete. If you use New Html from within the TBrowser, by default it takes you to an referral page that points to a web page that no longer exists.

2. If you use the menus within the standard GUI (e.g., right-click on a function to alter the plot), the underlined question mark links also point to web pages that no longer exist.

Point 1 can be addressed by changing Browser.StartUrl in system.rootrc, but I’m not sure which new page I should use. While I’d like to point the students to a class list, the HTML renderer within TBrowser can’t fully handle a page like the current ROOT: Class List.

Is this something that is ever likely to be fixed? Or is it just too easy to do a web search on “cern root axis SetRange” so there’s no point in changing anything?

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_ROOT Version:5.22.06
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[bellenot]

You’re right, it is outdated since we switched to Doxygen and no, it will not be fixed, the TGHtml widget only supports very basic html. We’ll fix that for a future release.
Thanks for reporting this!