weinstoc@sei.cmu.edu (Chuck Weinstock) (01/05/91)
Folks, I want to incorporate a help facility into a program that I am writing and was wondering whether there is canonical help code laying around somewhere? What I'm after is the style of help that shows two windows side-by-side, both scrollable, with an index in the left window, and text in the right window, but any reasonable facility would be fine. The program is written in Think C, but I can deal with code in Pascal, etc. Any pointers that you all could give me would be appreciated. Chuck Weinstock
vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio) (01/05/91)
You might check John Norstad's Disinfectant interface code... You can get a copy from acns.nwu.edu in pub/disinfectant, right next to the application itself. I can't think of anything else, offhand. -Vince Del Vecchio vd09@andrew.cmu.edu
Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) (01/07/91)
Chuck Weinstock writes in a message to All
CW> What I'm after is the style of help that shows two windows side-by-side,
CW> both scrollable, with an index in the left window, and text in
CW> the right window, but any reasonable facility would be fin
I believe that MacTutor has published some code on this: as I recall, the
trick
was to have a STR# with the index to the TEXT resource *IN FRONT OF* the
string
that would show up on the left side. Simply strip off the number, convert it
StrToNum <whatever> and put into an array. Then whenever the List Manager
returns
a selection, GetResource('TEXT", index) and display it in the righthand list.
Str# index 1: "#3546#Tommy"
Str# index 2: "#5548#Betty"
TEXT 3546: "Tommy is well known for being strange"
TEXT 5548: "Betty is properly called 'Elisabeth'"
and so on...
Lawson
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Internet: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.orgoster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) (01/10/91)
In article <34239.27875332@stjhmc.fidonet.org> Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English) writes:
_>Chuck Weinstock writes in a message to All
_>CW> What I'm after is the style of help that shows two windows side-by-side,
_>I believe that MacTutor has published some code on this: as I recall, the
_>trick:
_>Str# index 1: "#3546#Tommy"
_>Str# index 2: "#5548#Betty"
_>TEXT 3546: "Tommy is well known for being strange"
_>TEXT 5548: "Betty is properly called 'Elisabeth'"
Note: it is much simpler to just use sequentially numbered, named text
resources.
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