In Window 7 & J801 the various help menu items either do nothing, or display
a message box saying 'Not'

The problem with a right click, or ctl-v, ctl-c in the ide closing J without
any warning still presists.


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Subject: Re: [Jbeta] J801: is help enabled yet?

Murray Eisenberg:
ME>     Are any of the items in the jqt801 Help menu enabled yet? I'm not
ME>     getting any response (except, e.g., for a placeholder popup for Help
>
ME>     Release Notes). This is under Mac OS X.

I had the same problem last night (on Linux).

Run jqt as a command from a shell in an OSX Terminal window, not by clicking
on the jqt application.  That way, you'll often get diagnostic output in
that terminal window when things fail.

Hit thing "help" menu entries again, and see messages to the effekt "failing
to open url ~addon/user/help/some-thing-or-other.html".

This reminded me that, after J6, base installations are quite frugal if
possible, and many things have to be added using the package manager.

        install 'user/help'

will make you happy.  I also spend quite some time on getting acquainted
with the http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/JAL/Package%20Manager/jpkg
documentation (a fine piece of work).

I decided not to install "simply everything" but as things are needed.
Like you, I'd to to know where things actually hide.  So I continued to
explore the QtIDE and added yet another addon whenever one was missing.

Mind you:  going this route takes its time, I'd say 3 hours with all that
poking around when needed, instead of perhaps 1.5 hours of I had done a
simple

        install 'all'

right in the beginning.  I ended up with 24 installed pkgs vs. 49 ones not
needed.

                                                        Martin
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