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| <h2>Context-sensitive help</h2> |
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| <p>A focused set of help topics that is related to the current context can be |
| shown to users on demand using <b>context-sensitive help</b>. This form of user |
| assistance is delivered to users when a platform-specific trigger is activated |
| (e.g. F1 key on Windows, Ctrl+F1 on GTK, Help key on Carbon). Until Eclipse 3.1, |
| context-sensitive help was presented in infopop windows. Since 3.1, a new Help |
| view is the preferred way to deliver context-sensitive information to the user.</p> |
| <p>Context-sensitive help can be associated with widgets statically using |
| context IDs, or dynamically using context providers. The new help view also adds |
| dynamic help capability by searching help for topics relevant for the current |
| context.</p> |
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