The help viewer is located in the HTML viewer in the main tab window. It displays the currently selected help topic.
CrossStudio provides four types of context sensitive help with increasing detail:
To quickly find out what a menu item or tool button does, you can use “What’s This?” help. To do this:
CrossStudio will then display a small window containing the name and a brief description of the tool button or menu item.
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:
You can return to the Welcome page at any time:
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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.
The Contents view provides a list of all the topics and sub-topics within the help system.
The highlighted entry indicates the current help topic. Other topics can be selected and the help viewer will update accordingly.
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Using the Search window you can search for multiple words or phrases. When the search button is pressed the matching pages are listed in order of relevance.
When you select a topic in the Search window, the corresponding help topic is shown in the HTML browser.
The index view allows single keywords to be located. Keywords can either be typed, or selected from the list. As the selected keyword changes the topic with the highest number of hits is displayed. Other topics can be selected and the help viewer will update accordingly.