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Re: How to consider BrowserCategories in Version 6.0?

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• Subject: [mg86705] Re: How to consider BrowserCategories in Version 6.0?
• From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:23:10 -0500 (EST)
• References: <fro38p$i7c$1@smc.vnet.net>

FrontEndExecute[FrontEndToken["RebuildHelpIndex"]]

should do the trick.

Hope this helps,
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On Mar 18, 5:50 am, "Dr. Robert Kragler" <krag... at hs-weingarten.de>
wrote:
> I want to embed supplementary Mathematica packages in Mathematica
> version 6.0.x and want to include the BrowserCategories.m and
> BrowserIndex.nb files in the Help system.
>
> In version 5.2 I installed under the directory tree
> Program Files > Wolfram Research > Mathematica > 5.2 > AddOns >
> Applications >  (supplementary package eg. FuzzyLogic) > Documentation >=

> English > ( .m and .nb files such as BrowserCategories.m,
> BrowserIndex.nb ...)
> Then in the Help pulldown menu there is a button "Rebuild Help Index"
> with the result that afterwards the additional information was
> accessible in the Help menu under Help Browser > Add-ons & Links.
>
> The same directory tree structure is present in version 6.0.x too.
> Hence, I could insert in the subdirectory "Applications" -  or even
> better in "ExtraPackages" - the supplementary packages  etc. I would
> like to access in version 6.0 too.  However, what I cannot find is a
> similar button which corresponds to "Rebuild Help Index" (as in version
> 5.2) to rebuild the Help Index.
>
> My question is : how can I install an external  Mathematica package so
> that the files BrowserCategories.m and BrowserIndex.nb will be
> considered in version 6.0?
>
> Thanks in advance for helpful suggestions.
>
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