Apple Help provides system-wide instructional
help services for virtually all aspects of Mac OS. The
Apple Help technology has two main components: Help
Viewer and Apple Guide.
Apple
Guide 2.3
In Mac OS 8.5, Apple Guide is used to coach users
through sequences of commands required to perform a task.
Apple Guide 2.3 provides the following features:
- supports calling a specific Apple Guide sequence
by name from AppleScript
- backwards compatibility with older guide files
- integrated with Help Viewer
Help
Viewer 1.0
Help Viewer is a lightweight HTML-rendering
application that allows users to conveniently browse
online help materials. Help Viewer provides the following
facilities:
- Uses the Apple Information Access Toolkit (AIAT)
with the installed help files. The results are
displayed in a dynamically generated HTML page.
- AppleScript support allows callers to search for
any topic or string and display the results.
- URL links can be used to run AppleScript
scripts.
- URL links can be used to open Apple Guide
sequences.
Apple recognizes many developers are interested in
more information, but no further developer-level
information is available at this time.
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