Online Help
an.factory provides a full online version of the an.factory manual.
If you select
Help ... from
the Help Menu or the
button on the Tool Bar,
the Help Window is opened.
The Help Window works just like a web browser window, so its operation should be quite
familiar to you.
The left pane of the Help Window shows a tabbed navigation pane to allow you to quickly
navigate to a topic, whilst the right hand pane shows the help topic.
The navigation pane can show three different views, depending on which tab you select:
-
Displays the Table of Contents Navigation Pane, providing a structured
list of an.factory topics
-
Displays the Index Navigation Pane, providing an indexed list of
an.factory topics
-
Displays the Search Navigation Pane, allowing you to search the help
topics for keywords
The Help Window has the following Tool Bar buttons:
-
Navigates backwards to the last page in the access sequence. If you press
and hold the mouse button over this button, you will get a list of accessed pages
-
Navigates forwards to the next page in the access sequence. If you press
and hold the mouse button over this button, you will get a list of accessed pages
-
Selects the home page
-
Refreshes the current page
-
Prints the current page
-
Displays the print settings dialog
You can access context sensitive help by:
-
pressing the your Computer Platform's
Help Key (
F1 on the PC platform), which will load the help page associated with
the Component within the an.factory
Window that currently has
Focus (is responding to the keyboard and mouse).
-
pressing the
button on the Tool Bar and the clicking over the
item of interest
You can press the
Help Key in any an.factory Dialog to access the relevant help page for
the Dialog.