Introduction to Online Help

This programming topic describes the various types of on-line help found in Mac OS X. Your application rarely needs to contain code to display on-line help. Instead, you use Interface Builder and Xcode to set up on-line help for your application.

Organization of This Document

This programming topic contains the following articles:

• ‚ÄúComprehensive Help‚Äù describes the comprehensive help you can provide.

• ‚ÄúTooltips‚Äù describes the short bits of text that can describe a user interface element.

• ‚ÄúSpecifying the Comprehensive Help File‚Äù describes how to specify the location for your comprehensive help.

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