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- \hy-10{100}{Help on wxHelp: Contents}
-
- \hy-3{110}{wxHelp} is a simple-to-use help system.
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- It can be used in edit mode to build hypertext help indexes, or
- in non-edit mode to view the help without the risk of changing it.
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- \hy-13{101}{Basic operations}
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- \hy-13{102}{Editing}
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- \hy-13{103}{Embedding in wxWindows applications}
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- \hy-10{104}{Basic operations}
-
- To invoke wxHelp, start it on the command line with an optional
- filename, e.g.
-
- % wxhelp -f help.txt
-
- If you specify the -edit switch, wxHelp will start up in
- Edit mode.
-
- A contents page should appear, with highlighted blocks of
- text, some of which are mouseable (click with the left mouse button).
- Clicking on these takes you to other parts of the help file.
-
- Above the main text area is a panel with buttons for commonly-used
- operations, and a menu bar. See \hy-13{122}{Command buttons}.
-
- \hy-10{105}{Command buttons}
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- \hy-13{106}{Contents}
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- \hy-13{107}{Search}
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- \hy-13{109}{Back}
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- \hy-13{112}{<<}
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- \hy-13{120}{>>}
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- \hy-6{111}{Menu bar}
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- \hy-13{121}{File}
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- \hy-10{113}{Contents}
-
- Returns to the top section of the file. You may feel like pressing
- the Contents button when you're lost in hyperspace!
-
- \hy-10{115}{Search}
-
- Pops up a dialog box with a text entry widget for entering search
- text, and a list box with matching section titles. Type a search
- string (or * to match all), press the Search button, and then
- click on an item in the list box to go to that section.
-
- \hy-10{117}{Back}
-
- Go back in time to the previously selected section. This works across
- different files, since the recorded history includes file names.
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- \hy-10{118}{<<}
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- Go to the previous section.
-
- \hy-10{119}{>>}
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- Go to the next section.
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- \hy-10{114}{Editing}
-
- If you start wxHelp with the -edit switch you will get more
- functionality and some extra menus.
-
- You can now highlight blocks of text by dragging with the left mouse
- button, and assigning new block types to them using the Blocks menu.
- If you change your mind after selecting a block, deselect the block
- before dragging again or you'll have two overlapping selected blocks!
- Dragging is fiddly - the rectangle must be just within the block.
-
- Select/deselect a marked block with SHIFT left-click: it will be
- marked in cyan (or inverted on a monochrome display) if selected.
-
- Link block A to block B by selecting B, going back to A, right-clicking
- on A and selecting the Link block to selection menu item. Use
- this menu to unlink or clear the block.
-
- Find out the block type and when the block is linked with CONTROL
- left-click.
-
- You can also link blocks to blocks which are in another file, after
- loading a file, selecting a block, going back the previous section
- (using the Back button) and linking as per usual.
-
- The usual way to proceed is to take an ASCII file with section
- headings, then mark it up. Or you could generate the .xlp file
- automatically (as with the wxWindows help file, reconstructed from the
- Latex manual.)
-
- \hy-10{124}{Embedding in wxWindows applications}
-
- There will be a library for calling wxHelp from wxWindows
- applications. A later version of wxHelp will have an IPC capability so
- different sections may be displayed without having to bring up another
- copy of wxHelp.
-
-
-
- \hyindex{
- "Help on the wxHelp System"
- 101 104 help.xlp
- 102 114 help.xlp
- 103 124 help.xlp
- 106 113 help.xlp
- 107 115 help.xlp
- 109 117 help.xlp
- 112 118 help.xlp
- 120 119 help.xlp
- 122 105 help.xlp
- }
-