Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation: Help Systems

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You can use the following technologies to develop help systems for your program.

Apple Guide
Apple Guide allows applications to display context-sensitive help windows.

Apple Help
Apple Help is an enhanced version of Apple Guide, designed to give your application several ways to provide user assistance, including HTML pages, Apple Guide coach sequences, QuickTime movies, and AppleScripts.

Help Manager
You can use the Help Manager to provide your users with Balloon Help online assistance: contextual information that describes the actions, behaviors, or properties of your application’s features. If you offer an additional help facility for your users, you should use the Help Manager to add your own menu items to the Help menu so that there's one convenient and consistent place for users to look for help information.