Libhelp Help browser

The libhelp browser adds a toplevel window to your application (or runs as standalone in its own application shell). The help window consists of the `help view' and the `button area'.

window

The help view

Help documents are displayed in the `help view'. Help documents consist of text and images. Some documents will have hypertext links (references to other help documents or different positions in the same document). Text associated with a hypertext link is (by default) underlined and displayed in blue.

For example, the following image shows the look of a hypertext link (shurely without the red frame):

link

Click on (with the first mouse button while the pointer is above) such linked text to follow the link. Follow a link means: the current help document is added to the history and the referenced document is displayed instead. You can go back to the old document. To do so, press the Back button in the button area.

If the help document is taller than the help view, scrollbars are added to the view. You can use the scrollbars (in the usual way) to navigate through the document. Alternatively there are Up and Down buttons in the button area to sroll up and down by pages.

The help browser provides keyboard bindings for all buttons actions. These bindings are active only if the help view has keyboard focus.

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Libhelp version 1.8.1 (Jun 28. 95).
Thomas Harrer