"Doug McFadyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:67430@palm-dev-forum... > > This worked for me, but the way it works is clunky. > > Say I want some help on WinDrawChars(). I have to use the mouse to select > "WinDrawChars", then press the F1 key. This works. > > I really wish (SUGGESTION TIME), that I didn't have to select the function > name (it should work the very same way a Ctrl-F3 search works) to get help > on it. I should just need to stick the cursor on the function name, and > press F1; I use this shortcut technique to search for function usage with > Ctrl-F3. > > I also wish that if I right-clicked the function name, that "HELP" was one > of the options in the dropdown menu.
Good suggestions. I'm sending them on to the IDE developer who is doing the context-sensitive help. This is our first release with it, and we're trying to clean some things up for the 8.1 patch. One big change I hope to get in is to separate each API function to its own page. That will help a lot with browsing in the "contents" tab, and it also fixes some problems with bad anchor locations in our source data. One question: how would you parse the current item for this? Just scan for the C identifier that currently contains the cursor (or is just before it)? What if you have just typed a space after typing a keyword. I just want to get details nailed down so it can be implemented quickly. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
