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sgiHelp--ViewKit Help

The sgiHelp library is a Tcl Motif interface to the entire range of ViewKit help facilities. Before using these routines, you need to open the libsgihelp.so dynamic library:

moat> dlopen libsgihelp.so

These procedures parse a Viewkit helpmap file to create a help menu with either help pages or contextual help. Here is a list of related help routines:

sgiHelpMenu

process entries from a helpmap file to build a help menu

sgiVersionCallback


create a dialog box containing version information

sgiHelpSubMenu


read a helpmap file to build a help menu and any necessary submenus

sgiOnContextHelp


retrieve contextual help based on question-mark mouse pointer


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