Chapter 20. Adding Online Help
IN THIS CHAPTER
Mac OS X and Cocoa offer two primary means of providing application help to users: comprehensive help and ToolTips.
Comprehensive help corresponds to the application’s complete manual. It is stored in a folder inside the application as a collection of HTML pages. It is displayed by the Apple Help Viewer application that is a part of Mac OS X. The first section of this chapter describes how to use Apple Help from within a Cocoa application.
ToolTips are short messages that appear when the mouse pointer rests for a moment above a user interface element. They disappear when the mouse is moved again. ToolTips usually contain a short phrase that ...
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