Online Help
motif.factory provides a full online version of the motif.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:
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Displays the Table of Contents Navigation Pane,
providing a structured list of motif.factory topics
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Displays the Index Navigation Pane, providing an indexed
list of motif.factory topics
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Displays the Search Navigation Pane, allowing you to
search the help topics for keywords
The Help Window has the following Tool Bar buttons:
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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
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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
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Selects the home page
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Refreshes the current page
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Prints the current page
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Displays the print settings dialog
Context Sensitive Help
You can access context sensitive help by:
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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
motif.factory Window that currently has
Focus (is responding to the keyboard and mouse).
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pressing the
button on the Tool Bar and the clicking over the item
of interest
You can press the
Help Key in any motif.factory Dialog to access
the relevant help page for the Dialog.