Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

The Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide describes how to create online help information and integrate it into an OSF/Motif application. The Help System provides tools for authors and application developers. Authors can use this guide as a step-by-step handbook to create and display online help containing multiple text styles, graphics, and hyperlinks. For application developers, this guide describes the Help System application programming interface that provides access to help information directly from the application. It explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate hyperlink data.