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åMenus





This section describes each of HoWSample’s menus.










xThe Apple Menu



•  About HoWSample…



This command opens HoWSample’s About dialog, which invites you to try

Balloon Help or Help on Wheels to learn more about HoWSample.










xThe File Menu














•  Quit (Command-Q)



This command quits HoWSample.










xThe Edit Menu



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•  Undo (Command-Z)



This command is not used by HoWSample.  It is present only for desk

accessories.







•  Cut (Command-X)



This command cuts selected text to the clipboard.  It is used only with

desk accessories and dialogs containing text fields.







•  Copy (Command-C)



This command copies selected text to the clipboard.  It is used only with

desk accessories and dialogs containing text fields.







•  Paste (Command-V)



This command inserts the contents of the clipboard at the current cursor

location or replaces the currently selected text by the contents of the

clipboard.  It is used only with desk accessories and dialogs containing

text fields.







•  Clear



This command clears the selected text in a desk accessory or dialogs

containing text fields.










xThe Demo Menu



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•  Do-Nothing… (Command-D)



This command does nothing, except bring up the do-nothing dialog.

See the section entitled “The Do-Nothing Dialog” for more information

about the do-nothing dialog.










xThe Help Menu



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•  About Balloon Help…



This command, supplied by System software, tells you how to use Balloon

Help.  HoWSample supports Balloon Help.







•  Show/Hide Balloons



This command, supplied by System software, lets you turn Balloon Help

on and off.  HoWSample supports Balloon Help.







•  HoWSample Help



This command asks Help on Wheels to display HoWSample’s help file.  This

will start the help server if it was not already running.  If the help server

cannot be found on any mounted volume, HoWSample will offer to save a

readable copy of the help file as a TeachText file, then ask Finder to open

the file.  If the help file is missing or invalid, this command is disabled.





Pressing the Help or Command-? key at any time does the same thing.

When there is a dialog box on your screen, such as the do-nothing dialog,

the menu command is disabled, and the keyboard is the only way to

display help.





•  Dialog Help



This command does the same thing as the HoWSample Help command, but

scrolls the help display to show the section entitled “Dialogs.”







•  Menu Help



This command does the same thing as the HoWSample Help command, but

scrolls the help display to show the section entitled “Menus.”












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åRevision History






Click on any underlined item in this listing to read more about the revision


it describes.






1.2 (October 17, 1994)

•  Public AWOL Utilities 1.2 release.

•  No revisions.



1.1 (March 28, 1994)

•  Public AWOL Utilities 1.1 release.



1.0.5 (March 27, 1994)

•  No revisions.



1.0.4 (March 13, 1994)

•  Added support for an “extension” symbol in HoWRez.{language}.r, so

that a useful message is generated if the user tries to open or print an

extension or control panel’s separate help file when the help server is

absent.



1.0.3 (February 27, 1994)

•  Corrected an incompatibility with SpeedyFinder7’s Help menu removal

option which prevented help display.

•  Corrected an error in the documentation of HoWFindHelpFile.

•  Allowed the application to operate without a preferences file (for

example, when startup disk is locked).



1.0.2 (January 30, 1994)

•  No revisions.



1.0.1 (January 19, 1994)

•  If the help server is absent when HoWSample requests help, and the

user agrees to save the help file as a TeachText document, the file is split

into parts small enough for TeachText to handle.

•  Added HoWOpen function to HoWLib.  Control panels and extensions can

now launch the server to show their help files.

•  Calls to HoWOpen and background-only calls to HoWDisplay now cause

no-alert TeachText document launch if server is absent.

•  Corrected bug in cvrt tool which gave too much or too little vertical

space to pictures.

•  Appended “ •” to name of text file saved by HoWDisplay or HoWOpen,

to avoid collision with help file.



1.0.0 (October 2, 1993)

•  Initial AWOL Utilities 1.0 release.