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| <h1>Help system</h1> |
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| <p>The online help system lets you |
| browse, search, and print system documentation. The documentation is organized |
| into sets of information that are analogous to books. The help system also |
| supplies a text |
| search capabilities for finding the information you need by keyword and |
| context-sensitive help for finding information to describe the particular |
| function you are working with.</p> |
| <p>You can interact with help system in the workbench using Help view, or in |
| external help browser window.</p> |
| <h2>The help browser</h2> |
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| <p>When you first open the help browser by selecting <b>Help > Help Contents</b> |
| in the Workbench, the first view shown in the help window is called Contents. |
| Contents displays |
| various groupings of documentation for the product. Click on |
| one of the links to expand the navigation tree for that set of documentation. |
| Browse the tree and click on topics to display them.</p> |
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| <h2>Search</h2> |
| <p>If you want to find a particular piece of information in the online help, use |
| Search. The help system will search the entire information set, or only a part |
| of it, to find topics that meet the criteria you specify.</p> |
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| <h2>The Help view</h2> |
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| <p>You can open a Help view by The Help view |
| by selecting <b>Help > Dynamic Help</b> or by selecting <b>Help > Search </b> |
| in the Workbench., A help view will open turning to the Related Topics or to the |
| Search page. You can use links at the bottom of the help view to turn to other |
| pages. Browse topics and click on links to display them.</p> |
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| <h2>Context-sensitive help</h2> |
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| <p>If you are working through a task and encounter part of the interface that |
| you do not understand, use context-sensitive help.. Bring focus to the |
| interface widget in |
| question by clicking on it or using the Tab key, and then press <code>F1</code> |
| (<code>Ctrl+F1</code> on GTK+, and <code>Help</code> key on Carbon). A Help view |
| will display description of the widget in focus, and list related topics. Leave |
| the Help view open to see information on other interface elements when you focus |
| on them.</p> |
| <p>When working in a dialog, like wizards, or preferences, and request context-sensitive |
| help, a help view will be shown in a small window adjacent to the dialog.</p> |
| <p>An alternative way of presenting context-sensitive information are infopops. |
| You can use help preference page to choose to use infopops instead of Help |
| view for displaying context-sensitive help. If configured, a context help key, |
| such as <code>F1</code>, will open an infopop that will provide you with information |
| about the interface and, if appropriate, links |
| to more |
| information.</p> |
| <p>Note: On the some installation of KDE, Ctrl+F1 is the key binding for "Switch |
| to Desktop 1". To make context-sensitive help work with GTK+ on KDE, then that |
| binding must be removed. Try using the "KDE Default for 4 Modifier Keys" key |
| binding scheme.</p> |
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| "Related concepts"><br> |
| <a href="chelpview.htm">Help View</a></p> |
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| <img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/taccess.htm">Accessing and navigating online help</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tsearch.htm">Searching online help</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tf1help.htm">Accessing context-sensitive help</a><br> |
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