CrossStudio provides context sensitive help with increasing detail:
- Tool tips
- When you move your mouse pointer over a tool button and keep it still, a small window appears with a very brief description of the tool button and its keyboard shortcut if it has one.
- Status tips
- In addition to tool tips, CrossStudio provides a longer description in the status bar when you hover over a tool button or when you move over a menu item.
- Online Manual
- CrossStudio has links from all windows to the online help system.
The browser
Documentation pages are shown in the Browser.
Help using CrossStudio
CrossStudio provides an extensive HTML-based help system which is available at all times. To go to the help information for a particular window or user interface element, do the following:
- Focus the appropriate element by clicking it.
- Choose Help > CrossStudio Help or type F1.
You can return to the Welcome page at any time:
- Choose Help > Welcome.
Help from the text editor
The text editor is linked to the help system in a special way. If you place the cursor over a word and press F1, that word is looked up in the help system index and the most likely page displayed in the HTML browser—it’s a great way to quickly find the reference help pages for functions provided in the library.
Browsing the documentation
The Contents window provides a list of all the topics present in the CrossWorks documentation and a way to search through it.
The highlighted entry indicates the current help topic. When you click a topic, the corresponding page appears in the Browser window.
The Next Topic and Previous Topic items in the Help menu, or the tool buttons in the Contents window tool bar, move the selected topic.
You can search the online documentation by typing a search phrase into the Search box in the Contents window toolbar.
To search the online documentation:
- Choose Help > Search.
- Enter your search phrase in the Search box and press Return.
The search commences and the table of contents are replaced by links to matching pages, listed in order of relevance. To clear the search and return to the table of contents, click the clear icon in the Search box.