Mac Mania 2/MacMania 2.toast/Demo's/Tools&Utilities/ObiWan 4.0.1/ObiWan Release Notes

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ObiWan 4.0.1 is a general help system.  You can create several
databses and ObiWan will let you rapidly find information from
them.  It displays the information by temporarily taking over
several lines at the bottom of the main screen, so the information
can be displayed at any time in any program.  Portions of the
information can then be sent to the front window as if you had
typed it.  The main use of all this is to access the programming
database created from Apple’s PInterfacesHelp file, which includes
the procedures, traps, global variables and errors available up
to System 7.  If you've seen Online Companion, it works similar
to that, but includes all the System 7 information.

Three databases are included, the Force database which has all the
System 7 programming information, a Words database which is just a
list of words, useful for checking spelling, and a Perl database which
lists all the Perl commands.

Any programmer with a meg of disk space available and access to
the PInterfacesHelp file should definitely have a look at this (IMNVHO :-).
The normal use is to figure out the parameters of various calls, for
example, if I want to know the parameters for HOpen, I can get them
pasted in like this:
OSErr:=HOpen(vRefNum_INTEGER,dirID_LONGINT,fileName_Str255,
permission_SignedByte,VAR_refNum_INTEGER);
(in either C or Pascal format)

This is a minor upgrade to fix a few small problems, and include
the database with the control panel to simpilfy installation.

I hope it proves as useful to you as it does to me,
   Peter.

ObiWan 4.0.1 Copyright Peter N Lewis <[e-mail]>