JC's help package
JC's help package
This directory is used by the
Help.w
module to implement context-sensitive popup help windows for a number
of tcl/tk (wish) GUI tools. This isn't very useful over the web, of
course, since browsers don't generally respond to the Help button in
any sensible manner. But you can see here what sort of help files
are possible with a tcl-based GUI. What happens with the
Help.w
module is that a user can press the Help (or F1) key, and a help
window pops up showing the help file for whatever widget is being
pointed at. If that widget doesn't have a help file, the containing
widget is examined, and so on up to the top-level window.
Now if we could just persuade the browser makers to include something
like tk's bind command. And it sure would be nice if more keyboards
had Help keys.