Re: about help
Re: about help
- Subject: Re: about help
- From: Enigmarelle Development <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 16:09:22 -0500
On Sunday, February 10, 2002, at 03:43 PM, David Remahl wrote:
I know that one can use IB to put these nice tool tip informations on
buttons etc.
But lets assume I have a button, called "Fourier Transform". The tool
tip will not be big enough to explain, what a Fourier
transformation is.
For this the user should look into the Help Menu.
Yup. That is all according to apple guidelines.
Now: is there a direct way from my button to the section in my help,
which explains about Fourier?
E.g. press a "Help" key, the cursor turns into a "?", hit the button,
and the correct help page turns up?
Nope :-(, there is no direct way to do this.
There used to be exactly this in the Public Beta (and perhaps
later?) (some modifier that I forget)-click would turn the pointer
into a ? and was supposed to give help on the clicked item. I don't
think it ever worked though, and nothing I do now will make it
happen.
Does the AppKit provide this functionallity? If yes, where? If no: is
there a prefered way to implement this?
[snip explanation]
That is at least how I would do it, but I can't say I ever
implemented it,
nor that I thought it over a great deal ;)
I haven't given it much thought either, but Carbon apps get a Help
item in their contextual menus, which is probably how I'd do it,
just for the sake of consistency. Probably easier to do it that way
too ;)
-john c. warner
enigmarelle development
http://www.enigmarelle.com/
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