| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I would like to access the VMS help library directly from within
Fileview. Can someone tell me how this is done, since I have not
managed to get DECwindows help to display the full list of topics.
I have tried putting @vue$library:VUE$HELP.COM sys$help:helplib.hlb
with various topics as the second argument (e.g. empty string, "*", "?"
etc) but never get the list of first level topics available. Is there a
work around for this? Or is it a bug or a feature?
Feel free to point me at the right place if this has been answered
elsewhere before.
-- Rob
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| 1051.1 | MU::PORTER | Ellis the Rim Man | Mon Jul 03 1989 14:08 | 3 | |
When you type "HELP" to DCL with no topic specified, it displays
the default topic -- named "HELP". Have you tried that?
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| 1051.2 | tried that | NRMACP::WATSON | Rob Watson | Tue Jul 04 1989 04:44 | 10 |
RE .1
Yes - if you give "help" as the topic, you just get the subtopics of
"help help" available. If you don't supply a parameter, or specify "",
it looks for the "about" frame, which doesn't exist.
Any ideas?
Rob
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| 1051.3 | STAR::BENSON | Wed Jul 05 1989 13:42 | 34 | ||
When you don't specify a topic, FileView opens the help file and uses
the first topic it finds as the "initial topic" parameter to the
routine that creates the Help widget. Once the Help widget comes up,
you can get the full list of available topics by selecting TITLE... from
the SEARCH menu. When the Search dialog comes up, hit APPLY without
entering a title - it will find all the topics for you. Then you can
navigate to any topic in the list by double clicking on it.
The reason FileView doesn't just give you the list of all topics
automatically is that there was no way to get the standard Help Widget
to do that. If you provided a null topic, it simply complained. The
workaround was to get SOME topic by opening the library directly
(normally the Help widget performs all the library operations).
I've just been told, however, that the Help widget has been enhanced to
provide the list of topics if a NULL initial topic is specified. If
this is the case, FileView should be changed to use this feature if no
topic is specified in your VUE$HELP.COM invocation. (I can't commit to
that, since I'm no longer on the project.)
Tom
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