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- From: gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: Keep 'help' from opening several windows
- Message-ID: <EfMrFXS00Woh5K2V8u@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 05:02:27 GMT
- References: <9301250234.AA23184@carbon.chem.utah.edu>
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- Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se..
- dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)
-
- > My first question is: Where can I ask lots of questions concerning
- > Andrew?
-
- This is the correct forum. You can also feel secure in sending
- ATK-format documents to this list.
-
- Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se..
- dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)
-
- > Is there commercial support available or could I pay
- > somebody for helping me?
-
- The Andrew Consortium supports Andrew and acts as a clearlinghouse for
- the Andrew sources. Your organization could join at one of three
- membership levels. For more information contact the director, Fred
- Hansen (wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu).
-
- Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se..
- dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)
-
- > - How can I supply a new keyword to a running help process from another
- > program (with the current file being listed in the History panel)?
- > There is a command line option for help to request a new window - but how
- > can I request to use the old one? I know about typescript. But I
- > want to call the help system from another program. Is there a way
- > to call typescript to call help without opening a typescript window?
-
- This feature used to be supported but I believe I removed it for some
- good reason. ;^) Let me look at the code and try to remember why.
-
- Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se..
- dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)
-
- > - Is there a way to disable the "Window menu" in the help system (to
- > keep the user from opening lots of additional help windows)?
-
- You can disable any menubar and item. Add this to the global.helpinit
- file that should be located in $(ANDREWDIR)/lib:
-
- addmenu "" "Window~12,Show Help on...~14" help
- addmenu "" "Window~12,Show Help on Selected Word~26" help
-
- The only problem with this is that users who have .helpinit files, will
- have to use the include directive to get this behavior.
-
- % cat ~/.helpinit
- include /usr/andrew/lib/global.helpinit
-
- Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se..
- dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)
-
- > - Is there a way to put hypertext links in a help document and have
- > the new file be displayed in the old help window?
-
- The newest version of help (only available to Consortium members)
- includes hypertext help topics. Those items that are surrounded with
- the helptopic style (a dotted-box around the topic text), respond to a
- mouse click by loading the associated document into the current window.
- I have a personal help template that puts the helptopic dotted-box style
- in red on my color display. Draw the attention.
-
- Excerpts from misc: 24-Jan-93 Keep 'help' from opening se..
- dunkel@carbon.chem.utah. (2041)
-
- > - How can I swap right and left headers on even pages when printing
- > from the help program (like the option in "Printer Setup" in ez)?
-
-
- It should be doable and this is the sort of thing Consortium members get
- when they ask.
-
- Gary Keim
- Andrew Consortium
-