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 develop online help for Common Desktop Environment application software. It covers how to create help topics and how authors and developers collaborate to integrate online help into a Motif application. For authors, this book is a step-by-step guide to creating and testing online help that can contain multiple text styles, graphics, and hyperlinks. For application developers, this book describes the Help System application programming interface that allows the application to invoke help topics. It explains the help dialog widgets, how to respond to help requests, and how to navigate the hyperlink data.