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