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Visionary User's Guide
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visionary
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Using On-Line Help

 Visionary Studio has detailed on-line help that provides:

Visionary Studio provides two kinds of on-line help information: What's This? help and general help. What's This help provides context-sensitive help for windows, dialog boxes, wizards, and object properties. General help provides introductory information and how-to steps for specific tasks.

Using What's This? Help

Use What's This? help to get information about Visionary Studio screen elements and objects.

To view What's This? help for a screen element or object


What's This? button

    1. Click the What's This? button.

    The cursor pointer changes to the What's This? pointer (an arrow with a question mark).

    2. Click the screen element or object for which you want help.

    Help for the selected screen element or object appears in a help topic window. Help topic windows can be resized, and they remain open until you close them.

You can also display What's This? help in either of the following ways:

Using General Help

 You select general help topics from a tabbed window that appears when you choose Help Help Topics. General help topics are displayed in a new window. Help topic windows can be resized, and they remain open until you close them.

General help is organized into about topics and corresponding task topics. For each subject, the about topic provides general and introductory information; the related task topics provide how-to steps for using application features.

For example, "About the Object Inspector" describes the Object Inspector. "Setting Display Options in the Object Inspector" is a related task topic.

To select a topic from the general help table of contents

    1. On the Contents page of the Help Topics window, navigate to the topic you want by expanding the list of books and topics.

    2. Double-click the topic you want to view.

To select a topic from the general help index

    1. On the Index page of the Help Topics window, type the first letters of the term you are looking for in the text box.

    The index entries box is populated with matching index terms.

    2. Double-click the entry to view its matching topics.

    3. If more than one topic exists for the index entry, double-click the topic you want in the resulting Topics Found list box.

To create a full-text search index for help topics

    1. Click the Find tab of the Help Topics window.

    The Find Setup wizard is displayed.

    2. Click the Next button.

    3. Click the Finish button.

Windows help creates the full-text search index and displays the Find dialog box.

The creation of the full-text search index occurs one time only. After the index is created, you can find topics with the Find dialog box.

To select a topic from the full-text index

    1. Type the words you want to find in the top text box of the Find dialog box.

    The list box is populated with matching terms.

    2. In the list box, select one or more terms.

    The topics box is populated with matching topic titles.

    3. In the topics box, double-click the topic you want to view.

    The help topic is displayed.



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