QuickHelp 2.0.Excel Software are shipping QuickHelp 2.0 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. QuickHelp is a development tool for creating and deploying application help on Windows 95 through XP, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and Linux. QuickHelp is unique in its ability to author, maintain and test application help in a single tabbed window running on a platform of choice, then deploy the help system to virtually any computer. Help information resides in an XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. file distributed with a royalty-free, native viewer executable for each platform. QuickHelp 2.0 adds configurable actions, tables, parameters, default options, precompiled indexes and other performance enhancements making it 2 to 3 times faster than previous versions. Configurable actions include running an executable, presenting -a popup message, linking to different topics based on platform, running COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. methods, sending Apple Events, running a compiled AppleScript or presenting QuickTime movies. In addition to traditional tables with bordered rows and columns, tables can present tabular tab·u·lar adj. 1. Having a plane surface; flat. 2. Organized as a table or list. 3. Calculated by means of a table. tabular resembling a table. data without borders A number of NGOs have adopted the "Without Borders" tag, inspired by Doctors without Borders.
tr.v. pa·ram·e·ter·ized also pa·ram·e·trized, pa·ram·e·ter·iz·ing also pa·ram·e·triz·ing, pa·ram·e·ter·iz·es also pa·ram·e·triz·es topics, actions, tables and other aspects of the help system when installing or running their application. For example, a single help file can provide customized help that is tailored to different platforms or product editions, For the end user, the QuickHelp Viewer supports an expandable table of contents, web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. like navigation, an index with automatic search field and word searches across topics. Topics are presented with text, images, tables, user initiated actions and hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links between topics plus context sensitive help from any application. For the developer, the QuickHelp Builder provides a productive authoring environment that combines the Contents and Index panels from the Viewer edition with the Edit and General panels for editing the help system. The Edit panel is used to add, format, edit, delete or move topics within the Contents tree. Each topic has a field for defining index words and a context sensitive identifier string that links it to an application menu, button or dialog. Topics or portions of a topic can be conditionally visible based on the current platform or other variables. www.exel.com |
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