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| From: | Andreas Heppel |
| Subject: | Re: ANNOUNCE : HelpViewer 0.1 |
| Date: | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:22:08 +0100 |
The 'help key' thing is what I found on the web this afternoon, too, but didn't really understand it. So the help key is something on the mac's keyboard which we don't have on the PC, right? I like this idea, too, and wonder whether there would be a way to make this work without a dedicated key on the keyboard. I was already thinking about a menu antry with a shortcut, e.g. F1, but this wouldn't workwhen a modal panel is open. And I wouldn't want to build code into each (modal) panel to catch a certain 'help key'. I also don't really like the idea of having 'Help' buttons everywhere. I'll think about it.Am Montag den, 20. Januar 2003, um 13:40, schrieb Andreas Heppel:My question is where activateContextHelpMode would be called, i.e. do I provide a menu entry such as 'Context Help F1' or maybe something else. I wonder whether there is a 'standardised' *Step way of achieving this.On Mac OS X is it implemented this way: If you are in a Cocoa App and press the "help" button on the keyboard the mousecursor changes into a question mark. With this question mark you click on the interface element you want to obtain information about. That's it or better: that should it be, since I found no application where this type of help is actually implemented. I always get a beep if i click on something with this question mark. So it looks to me that this feature is a leftover from the days of OPENSTEP, but I like the basic idea.
Maybe a working tooltip solution was the better way to go, anyway. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Heppel Mail: aheppel at web dot de Home: http://www.andreasheppel.de Check out GSburn.app - the CD burning frontend for GNUstep http://gsburn.sourceforge.net
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