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Started by dunkel
Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:34
Keep 'help' from opening several windows
Author: dunkel
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:34
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:34
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I am new to the Andrew software and I am not familiar with relevant newsgroups or bulletin-boards. So please send me mail and tell me where an answer is posted if that's the normal way to get an answer. Thanks. My first question is: Where can I ask lots of questions concerning Andrew? Is there commercial support available or could I pay somebody for helping me? Here are some of my questions - I would appreciate ANY hint on how to get a (partial) answer: The history mechanism in 'help' is great. Now all I need to find out is to keep help from opening lots of help windows to really make use of the history panel. - How can I supply a new keyword to a running help process from another program (with the current file being listed in the History panel)? There is a command line option for help to request a new window - but how can I request to use the old one? I know about typescript. But I want to call the help system from another program. Is there a way to call typescript to call help without opening a typescript window? - Is there a way to disable the "Window menu" in the help system (to keep the user from opening lots of additional help windows)? - Is there a way to put hypertext links in a help document and have the new file be displayed in the old help window? - How can I swap right and left headers on even pages when printing from the help program (like the option in "Printer Setup" in ez)? Thanks! __ _ | ) o | | | \ | | | / _ |_ _ _ _| | | | _ | |/\ /_) | ^ ^ | | _) | / | | | | | ^ ^ |_) /_) | | \_/\___|_| | |_| |_(_|__|___\_| |_/__|_|_| | |_| \_/\___| Department of Chemistry Office: (801) 581-7351 2020 Henry Eyring Building b113 Home: (801) 582-7516 University of Utah FAX: (801) 581-8433 Salt Lake City, UT 84112 dunkel@chemistry.chem.utah.edu
Re: Keep 'help' from opening several windows
Author: Gary Keim
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:02
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:02
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Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se.. dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041) > My first question is: Where can I ask lots of questions concerning > Andrew? This is the correct forum. You can also feel secure in sending ATK-format documents to this list. Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se.. dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041) > Is there commercial support available or could I pay > somebody for helping me? The Andrew Consortium supports Andrew and acts as a clearlinghouse for the Andrew sources. Your organization could join at one of three membership levels. For more information contact the director, Fred Hansen (wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu). Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se.. dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041) > - How can I supply a new keyword to a running help process from another > program (with the current file being listed in the History panel)? > There is a command line option for help to request a new window - but how > can I request to use the old one? I know about typescript. But I > want to call the help system from another program. Is there a way > to call typescript to call help without opening a typescript window? This feature used to be supported but I believe I removed it for some good reason. ;^) Let me look at the code and try to remember why. Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se.. dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041) > - Is there a way to disable the "Window menu" in the help system (to > keep the user from opening lots of additional help windows)? You can disable any menubar and item. Add this to the global.helpinit file that should be located in $(ANDREWDIR)/lib: addmenu "" "Window~12,Show Help on...~14" help addmenu "" "Window~12,Show Help on Selected Word~26" help The only problem with this is that users who have .helpinit files, will have to use the include directive to get this behavior. % cat ~/.helpinit include /usr/andrew/lib/global.helpinit Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se.. dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041) > - Is there a way to put hypertext links in a help document and have > the new file be displayed in the old help window? The newest version of help (only available to Consortium members) includes hypertext help topics. Those items that are surrounded with the helptopic style (a dotted-box around the topic text), respond to a mouse click by loading the associated document into the current window. I have a personal help template that puts the helptopic dotted-box style in red on my color display. Draw the attention. Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se.. dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041) > - How can I swap right and left headers on even pages when printing > from the help program (like the option in "Printer Setup" in ez)? It should be doable and this is the sort of thing Consortium members get when they ask. Gary Keim Andrew Consortium
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