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Is the HTML Help Workshop still a viable choice for use with applications?

I am trying to plan the Help function for a new application (desktop WPF, but also asp.net website). I spent some time trying to research this and there doesn't seem to be a lot of information. I have seen a variety of solutions such as here, but…
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How to show Help View at startup without User Input in Eclipse Ganymede?

My work requires me to develop for Eclipse 3.4 (ganymede). I would like to show the Help View from the Eclipse Help System at startup in my perspective. Trying to do it like this: public class Perspective implements IPerspectiveFactory { public…
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Powershell help module not able to find help files in MacOS

I am running PowerShell Core 7.2.6 installed via homebrew on MacBook Air M1 (12.6). However, when I try to use the help module to find some examples , I get this error. REMARKS Get-Help cannot find the Help files for this cmdlet on this computer. It…
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Eclipse RCP help broken after update of 4.12

I have updated an eclipse rich client platform product from version 4.4.2 to 4.12. All is working fine expect the help. I get an 500 error. Its the help which uses an internal jetty-server. Strangely the context-help and help-search is working fine.…
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Powershell Comment-Based Help for scripts

I'm unable to access Comment-Based Help in my script. The command I'm using is this: PS C:\MyDir> Get-Help .\do-something.ps1 -Full (do-something.ps1 is in MyDir). My question is: Should I expect this command to work the same in the ISE Console Pane…
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How to implement help in Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler) application?

I have an E4 RCP application and I need to add a Help system to it. As I have understood from a post in the same forum, called Eclipse e4 and org.eclipse.help.ui, it "seems that pure Eclipse 4 code currently (as in Eclipse juno 4.2) lacks support…
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Google Help system

I would like to create an HTML help for one of my application, based on the Google help system. Does anyone know whether the Google Help system is available outside Google corp? If yes, how to obtain it. What is the authoring tool? Is it an open …
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Help System for Flash/Flex/AIR

I'm building a desktop application in Flex/AIR, and one of the current items on my TODO list is to develop a help system. Throughout the GUI, there are little (?) buttons. When the user clicks one of those buttons, a HelpPanel appears, displaying…
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R: Finding help for classes created by packages

It often seems to be the case that R packages contain multiple functions that create an object of some class, specified by the package, with generic or non-generic methods that apply to all objects of that class. Although it is generally easy to…
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Custom help in Rad Studio 10.4

Is there a way to add my own custom help to the help menu in RAD Studio 10.4? Under the menu options "Help" | "Third-party help", several of the third party libraries I use have added help for their products. Is there any way I can add my own help…
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Why do I see duplicate SharePoint Online cmdlets in the PowerShell 7 help system?

This is on a new install of PowerShell 7.0.0 from 2020-03-26: PS C:\> Get-Help Get-SPOSite -online Name Category Module ---- -------- ------ Get-SPOSite Cmdlet …
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how to integrate a Plug-in Project template into an existing eclipse project?

I have already developped a Java project using Eclipse. Now I would like to integrate an help system to allow the user to open a guide. Browsing other questions i found this tutorial to set up Eclipse environment in order to use the Eclipse Help…
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Display “tooltip” Help bubble on widgets like TextField in Vaadin

I want to display a floating bubble with online-help info when the user hovers the mouse pointer, like a tooltip seen on a button-tool-bar in other apps. I know that we can pass an initial value when setting up a widget such as TextField. And I see…
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Mind the gap: Finding the text of C++ code called by an R function

I would like to find the text of the C++ code called by an R function, specifically, the function "_dplyr_summarise_impl" which is called by summarise_impl. Even more specifically, I would like to find the bit of code that precedes that which…
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R: Finding the code for the data.frame method of the [ function

In R, how do I look at the code for the data.frame method of the [ function? I have tried the usual plain return on [.data.frame, [.data.frame, and [.data.frame, and none of them work, nor do any of them work with getAnywhere(). getMethod("[",…
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