Help Search…
Index
Pressing F1 or selecting Help/Search menu option will display the following dialog. Each tab indicates a separate help index file. JDK index is shipped with Kawa and user index is the index of customized user indices. Kawa tab has all the indices for searching Kawa help files.

- Please select the tab for the index you want to search. User tab is customized help indices, JDK tab is the help index that is shipped with Kawa and Kawa tab lists all the indices for search within Kawa help. Please refer to
How to add custom help index under Kawa for more details on how to customize the help index.
- Type the keyword you are searching or scroll the text to find the keyword you are searching and double click on the keyword or press enter to display all the available topics for that keyword. In the above figure, Topics Found displays all the topics found for the Applet keyword.
- Hitting enter in the Topics found will display the content from the selected file in a built in Kawa HTML browser. Double clicking on a topic found item will do the same.
- Selecting an index and pressing enter twice will display the first topic found for the selected index.
- Pressing F1 in the editor window will automatically search for the word at the cursor and display the help window if there is only one topic found. This is the context sensitive help feature of Kawa. This option first checks for the keyword under JDK tab and if nothing is found it searches the user tab for the same keyword.