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

Required Entry Points

To ensure that context-sensitive help within a help dialog operates correctly, you must provide the following entry points (IDs) within your help on help volume. (These are already included in the Help4Help source files.)

ID 

Fopic Description 

_hometopic

Displays an introduction to using the help system. This topic is displayed when you choose Using Help from the general help dialog's Help menu, or when you press F1 in a quick help dialog. (The ID _hometopic is created automatically by the <hometopic> element.)

_copyright

Displays the copyright and version information for the help on help volume. This topic is displayed when you choose Version from the general help dialog's Help menu. (The ID _copyright is created automatically by the <copyright> element.)

history

Displays a topic that describes how to use the History dialog. This topic is displayed when you choose Help or press F1 within the History dialog. 

printing

Displays a topic describing how to use the Print dialog. This topic is displayed when you choose Help or press F1 within the Print dialog. 

index-search

Displays a topic describing how to use the Index Search dialog. This topic is displayed when you choose Help or press F1 within the Index Search dialog. 

volume-select

Displays a topic describing how to use the Search Volume Selection Dialog. This topic is displayed when you choose Help or press F1 within the Search Volume Selection Dialog.