Click for Help

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  • Using the Help Viewer
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Click for Help

Click for Help arms a mode inside the application you are using. While the mode is on, the Help control paints yellow, and rolling the pointer over any control shows a short beveled tip describing that control. Click the Help control again, or close the window, to turn the mode off.

Nothing is launched and no separate window appears. The tip is drawn by the application itself.

• Turn it on: choose Help, then Click for Help, or press Shift+F1.
• Read a tip: move the pointer onto a control and leave it there.
• Turn it off: choose Click for Help again.

Not every control is annotated yet. A control with no tip simply shows nothing; that is a gap in the application, not an error.

Where it is implemented

The mechanism lives in the shared widget library rather than in any one application, so every application gets the same behaviour. An application opts in with three calls: initialise the mode on its shell, bind its Help control, then tag each control with one sentence of ASCII text.

See also Using the Help Viewer.