New topic: Display standard MacOS X Help Icon or Help Button
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=24886> Page 1 of 1 [ 5 posts ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message brianheibert.com Post subject: Display standard MacOS X Help Icon or Help ButtonPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:30 pm Joined: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:38 pm Posts: 371 Location: Loveland, OH USA Hi, I want to display the standard MacOS X help button or help icon (whatever it is) in my application's main window. and then I want to call up the help system I am using when that button or icon (whatever it is) is pressed. I am using UniHelp. I know how to display the UniHelp help system. What I don't know how to do is display the standard MacOS X help button. If anyone can tell me how to do this, help is appreciated. Brian Heibert http://www.brianheibert.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Top kirkgray Post subject: Re: Display standard MacOS X Help Icon or Help ButtonPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:34 am Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:42 pm Posts: 264 What do you consider to be brianheibert.com wrote:the standard MacOS X help button or help icon (whatever it is) ? Is this an icon or button you're seeing somewhere or the standard Help menu? _________________ "What if there were no hypothetical situations?" REALbasic Professional 2008r3.1 MacBook Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.5.4 Power Mac dual G4, Mac OS X 10.4.11 Top paulg Post subject: Re: Display standard MacOS X Help Icon or Help ButtonPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:40 am Joined: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:45 pm Posts: 116 Um Brian, you have asked this question before, did you search the forums? http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24135 http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=24232 If it is a problem remembering, because honestly some of my brain's RAM is faulty, then how about a notebook? I would say a directory on your Hard Drive but if you forget to do backups and your drive crashes you are pretty much back to square one. I do this, I keep printouts, code snippets, questions, etc organized in a binder so I can always refer to something... The reason I am telling you this, Brian, is you have a tendency to ask the same questions over and over again. Hope that helps... _________________ This message made with 100% recycled pixels. -- REALbasic 2008r4.1 MacBook CD 2.0, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD OS X 10.5.5 Top kirkgray Post subject: Re: Display standard MacOS X Help Icon or Help ButtonPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 1:52 am Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 1:42 pm Posts: 264 Okay, color me embarrassed. I've been using OS X for a while now and honestly couldn't remember a "standard Mac OS X help Button" (or whatever). And couldn't find it any main windows of any Apple software. But then I went to print something, there it was: The Official Mac OS X Help Button Thingy (or whatever). I haven't read Apple's official guidelines lately, but it seems to show up (in Apple's software) only in dialog boxes (preferences, print, etc.). As far as displaying one for use in your own programs, a canvas based button would seem to be in order. Easy enough to roll your own -- a search for "icon button", "canvas button", or something similar should point you in the right direction. [Apple purplized the Official Mac OS X Help Button Thingy (or whatever), so maybe I'm not the only one who hasn't been seeing it all these years. Or maybe I just suffer from selective blindness.] _________________ "What if there were no hypothetical situations?" REALbasic Professional 2008r3.1 MacBook Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.5.4 Power Mac dual G4, Mac OS X 10.4.11 Top brianheibert.com Post subject: Re: Display standard MacOS X Help Icon or Help ButtonPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:09 am Joined: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:38 pm Posts: 371 Location: Loveland, OH USA I got it now Thanks, Brian _________________ Brian Heibert http://www.brianheibert.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 5 posts ] -- Over 900 classes with 18000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v8.1. <http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml> [email protected]
