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The Amigaguide® Help System
04/07/93
Have you ever been using a program like Deluxpaint, etc. and forget the
keyboard commands or what a particular function does? You have to dig
out the manual and thumb thru it looking for what you need and in the
meantime your creative juices get sidetracked so that by the time you
get back to painting or animating you've lost the idea you had or lost
track of what you were doing. I know I have and I have always wanted
this function for my Amiga. Well, fear not brave computer users.
With the coming of Amigaguide® having help files for your programs is
now a viable concept. Anyone that has ever used an IBM or clone (perish
the thought!!) knows you can usually hit F1 to get some help on what you
are doing.
Well, shortly and sweetly I laboriously have done all the hard labor
(typing) and my sweat is your gain. I have started with the Amigaguide®
help file for Deluxepaint IV since I use it the most. If you will
examine the layout of an Amigaguide® text file you will see that it
consists mostly of nodes and a main(s) menu. The supplied file could
also be added upon to include several help files for different programs
and can be called up with the HELP key. There are a couple of ways to do
this.
Since I use Directory Opus a lot, I setup the HELP key under Global
Hotkeys to run the Amigaguide file which I keep in my C directory and
give it an Amigaguide® file to run upon loading.
E.G. SYS:c/Amigaguide SYS:s/PROGHELP.guide
So that when I hit the HELP key my Help file is loaded.
You could also use something like AGInvoker to accomplish the same thing.
I originally was going to keep several help files in one Amigaguide file
but it turned out to be larger than what I thought.
Since you must have Deluxepaint IV to use this file, I figured only
registered owners would use it anyway so I don't think there is any
copyright infringement. You could expound upon this file and link
more commands together so you could cross-reference them but I choose
not to go this route to save time. Hope this helps make computing easier
for you.......Enjoy!!
M. Holloway