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Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
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Re: Scripting Help Viewer?


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Help Viewer?
  • From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 16:12:25 -0700

On 5/13/10, Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:


> I wonder if some Wizard could get into "com.apple.helpviewer.plist" and
>create a new line that would address this "Feature"?

It's doable in Leoard with this:

defaults write com.apple.helpviewer NormalWindow -bool true

However, AFAIK, not doable in SL.

> On May 13, 2010, at 11:13 AM, John Baltutis wrote:
>
>> On 5/13/10,  Thomas Fischer <<mailto:email@hidden>email@hidden>
>>wrote:
>>
>>> So the name must have been changed sometime before 5.0.2.
>>>
>>
>> Correct, since it's buried in CoreServices.
>>
>>> There was another annoying change: Now there is no way anymore to allow to
>>>
>>> push the Help window into the background, as was possible in 10.5. Or does
>>>
>>> anybody know one?
>>>
>>
>> There isn't. In SL, the window's always on top. The engineers apparently got
>> tired of complaints that people were leaving the app running and losing sight
>> of the window. Thus, they want it closed after using.
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