Re: creating context-sensitive help

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From: Scott Yaung
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:18

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Yes, you should make a "mark" of some event of what you are doing now.
or when help need,check the job the user is doing,
or u can use some unused field of object to identify when kind of help
the user need.
Or use tipstext to show shorter helps
Have a nice day.
Scott

Chris Fjell <cfjell@bcgsc.bc.ca> wrote in message
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> I'm wanting to create a context-sensitive help system for an application.
>
> Is there a java tool to do this?  (analogous to WinHelp on MS Windows)
>
> Is there support in JBuilder? I've searched the documentation (using
> Find) and found nothing relevent. I used to work with Delphi on Windows
> and there was great support - help indexes for components etc if I
> remember correctly.
>
> Or do I do key-stroke listener on the app and handle everything myself?
>
> --
> Chris Fjell
> Programmer/Analyst - Genome Sequence Center, BC Cancer Agency
> 600 W 10th Avenue, Vancouver BC V5Z 4E6
>
> email: cfjell@bcgsc.bc.ca
> www: http://www.bcgsc.bc.ca
>

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