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- åWhat Does Help on Wheels Do?
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- Help on Wheels is designed to be as unobtrusive as possible. Here are
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- some of the things it can do for you.
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- xResponding to Client Requests
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- Help on Wheels keeps track of every client running on your Macintosh.
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- (Every AWOL Utilities application is a client.) Client applications
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- “register” for help service when they start to run, but usually you won’t
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- see the help window until you ask for help, by whatever means the client
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- provides — usually the Help menu, the Help or Command-? key, or a
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- button.
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- xDisplaying Help Files
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- While the server is active, you can read a client’s help file using a large
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- scrolling box, or choose a topic of interest from the table of contents
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- beside it. You can use the server’s own Help menu to switch to other
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- clients’ help files, including the one you are reading.
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- xPrinting and Saving
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- Using the File menu, you can print the help file, or save it on disk as a
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- text file, to edit later. When you are done with the help window, you can
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- return to the client by pressing the Return or Enter key.
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- xHypertext Buttons
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- Some clients offer “hypertext buttons” to make it easier to use their
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- help files. You can recognize a hypertext button in the help window by the
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- underlined text. There are two kinds, link buttons and hot buttons. When
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- you click on a link button, the box scrolls to show the related topic. By
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- contrast, hot buttons can do anything the client wants them to. For
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- example, a hot button may offer to demonstrate a function, or open a
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- dialog box so that you can change its settings.
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- xCasual (Client-Operated) Help Display
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- By turning on the “follow” option in the Preferences window, you allow
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- the active client to operate the help window automatically, changing the
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- help display to follow its own actions. For example, the client might
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- respond to your click on a radio button by scrolling the help display to
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- show the paragraph which describes the purpose of the button. This only
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- works if the active application (the owner of the front window) is also the
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- client whose help file is showing in the help window, and only if the client
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- is programmed to do such “casual displays.” The client’s help file will
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- tell you if this is the case.
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- xTransient Usage
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- You can quit the server at any time; it will come back when you next ask
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- for help, and it will still know about all of the clients.
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- If you prefer, you can just press the Option key while switching back to a
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- client application, causing the server to hide its windows as it moves to
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- the background.
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- xSeparation of Help Files
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- Most clients have just one help file, which may be the application itself,
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- or a separate Help on Wheels document. If the document is separate, you
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- can open or print it without opening the client application. Most clients
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- will allow you to keep the document and the application in separate folders
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- without losing track. If you trash the document, the client will still work,
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- but will not offer on-line help. You may want to do this to save space
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- after you have used the client for some time.
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- xMultiple Language Support
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- Some clients offer help in two or more languages. There may be one help
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- file for each, or one which covers all languages. The server will try to
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- choose a language which suits your current System environment. Future
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- versions of the Help on Wheels server will be available in languages other
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- than English.
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