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Actor Documentation from website is rendered as plain text instead of in a doc viewer.
Under Mac OS X, the actor documentation that is downloaded from the website is not rendered.
- install bcvtb-install-mac64-v1.6.0.jar
- In the Finder, browse to /Applications/bcvtb/bin and click on bcvtb
- File -> New
- From Actors->Sources->GenericSources, drag in a Const actor
- Right click and select Documentation->GetDocumentation
- Click on "Use Website"
- The xml of the downloaded file is displayed in plain text instead of the documentation being rendered in a documentation viewer.
However, if, in a full Ptolemy II development tree, I run
$PTII/bin/vergil -bcvtb
and do the above, then the docs are rendered.
I'm fairly certain that this functionality comes from the following line in ptolemy/configs/extendedEffigyFactories.xml
It looks like in the PTII tree, ptolemy/configs/bcvtb/configuration.xml includes that file with:
I'm not sure why the docs are not being rendered by the installer version.