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Re: IDL7.0 Help System Tabs??? [message #57184]

Thu, 06 December 2007 09:06

Spon
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Registered: September 2007

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On Dec 6, 4:38 pm, lark...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a couple issues with the new help system.
>
> This may be a silly question, but the "old" help system on Windows had
> this great feature: TABS.
> I found this to be extremely useful, but I cannot figure out how to
> open multiple tabs in the new
> help system. This is very surprising given the basis for the new
> IDE.

Yes, I've had a rant about this already (it's good to know I'm not
alone!), but it's at the end of a long, long thread; probably would've
been better off starting a new one :-)
Have a search for Ronn Kling's method of opening two help menus
though.

>
> Also the basic searching for the new help system does not seem very
> helpful. For example,
> if I enter "widget_control", I do not get useful options as the result
> of the search. Perhaps
> I have missed something here.
>
> Any help is appreciated! Sorry if I missed earlier posts addressing
> these issues.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> -Larry
OK, a workaround:

*deep breath*
In the workbench, click on Help->Dynamic Help
Click on Index (at the bottom)
Type in your keyword, e.g. 'widget_control' and open out the subtree
it finds
Right-click on the helpfile you want to see and select 'Open help in
Help Contents' (this is slow-ish on my machine)
Bingo

Not exactly intuitive, is it? :-(
Chris

There's got to be a better way, no? And yet using help->search gives
little of any use that I can find

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		Re: IDL7.0 Help System Tabs??? By: Spon on Thu, 06 December 2007 09:06
		Re: IDL7.0 Help System Tabs??? By: David Fanning on Thu, 06 December 2007 08:47
		Re: IDL7.0 Help System Tabs??? By: R.G.Stockwell on Thu, 06 December 2007 10:00
		Re: IDL7.0 Help System Tabs??? By: David Fanning on Fri, 07 December 2007 06:33
		Re: IDL7.0 Help System Tabs??? By: Vince Hradil on Thu, 06 December 2007 09:19

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