Help for Help

Overview
VisualAge Help is structured to help you accomplish what you need to when you need to do it.

We provide you with three main kinds of information:

In addition, we've also provided:

Detailed Help: Topics and Links
Our help is in HTML format, so if you've browsed the World Wide Web, you already know how to use it effectively.

Hypertext links appear highlighted and underlined in light blue (depending on your HTML browser). Visited links appear in purple.

You can copy-and-paste examples and samples right into your own projects. Use your browser's forward and back controls to flip between help pages.

Navigate through a hierarchy of topics by selecting Concepts, Tasks or References. Just follow the links to get to the topic you want, and then select that link.

Get to the References you need when you work. Links in the body of the text always take you to the Reference information highlighted. So if you need more information about a certain programming structure, it's only a click away.

Find similar information quickly. Related Topics links--at the end of each information section--move you through the help information. We've divided these links into Concepts, Tasks and References so that you know what kind of information you're getting before you click on a link.

Search for any word or group of words in the entire set of VisualAge Help information.

You can also make a search request that only returns certain kinds of information, like Tasks or Concepts. In addition, you can keep your searches simple, or use the full power of an advanced search engine with boolean searches, wildcards, and fuzzy or exact term matching.

To start searching, double click on the "Start Search Server" icon in the VisualAge for Java program folder.

Printing Information
To print a topic:

  1. Select the help content window (where this text appears) by clicking once anywhere in the frame (not on a link!)
  2. Select File...Print from your browser.

To print a group of topics:

We provide groups of information that you can view and print using the Adobe Acrobat** reader. The PDF Index link on the Home page contains links to collections of information from the HTML help in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not already have the Acrobat reader installed, you can download it for free from Adobe's website at www.adobe.com.