Mac OS 8.5 Technote: Part VII

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Apple Help

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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