Help Object Library: 1.3 What Is Help?: Simple Help

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Simple Help provides a small scrolling dialog box with help text. This is useful for places where very simple help is required, perhaps only a few lines to illustrate a simple operation. Simple Help may be most useful for appliance-type applications; most applications will use Standard Help or First Aid help. A sample screen of Simple help is shown below.

Simple help, like First Aid, requires that the application have its own HelpControl object and that the help controller be on the active list. Text in simple help does not link, so all help text pertaining to the item must appear on a single page.


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