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SLIME uses Netscape or Mosaic to display
on-line help. The help text is taken from a hypertext version of this
manual. All SLIME installations are capable of using
Netscape but, since SLIME needs to be linked against
a special library from NCSA that is not included in the SLIME
distribution (for copyright reasons) and that is not as portable as it
should be, your version of SLIME may not support
Mosaic.
I recommend that you use Netscape in any case.
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If you already have a Netscape viewer running, SLIME
will use this to display on-line help rather than starting a new
one. Mosaic is less flexible about being controlled by other
programs and SLIME will always have to start its own instance
of Mosaic.
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If Netscape has been iconized, it will open automatically
when SLIME loads a new help page. Mosaic will stay
iconized.
You may change your help viewer using the Help Configuration
command from the Options menu belonging to the model-editing
tool. You may also change the location from which the help-text will
be read. Help text may be held in local disk files or on a remote
http server.
Each SLIME tool has a Help menu with a number of
commands.
- Context-Sensitive Help
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This command initiates one of the two context-sensitive help systems
available in SLIME. The cursor will change to a question
pointer. Click on the component on which you want help. The cursor
will then revert to its normal shape. You can abort this operation by
clicking outside any of the SLIME windows. You can also
invoke this command by pressing the
key
while holding down the
key. This
command will sometimes provide more specific help than the alternative
method for obtaining context-sensitive help described below.
- Overview
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This command requests general information about the application window
from which you invoked it. For example if you issue this command
using the Help menu in a baseline tool, you will get
information about baseline tools.
- Index
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This command requests an index for all of the help information
available for SLIME. It will actually cause the table of
contents to be displayed rather than a full index.
- Keyboard
This command requests help on special keys used by SLIME.
- Tutorial
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This command requests a hypertext version of the tutorial given in
Chapter 2.
- Using Help
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This command requests help on using help (this chapter).
- Product Information
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This command is used to display the version number and copyright
information for the version of SLIME that you are using.
This information will be displayed in an information dialogue rather
than the hypertext viewer.
You may also obtain context-sensitive help by clicking on the
Help button in a dialogue or by pressing the
key. If you press the
key over a user-interface component that
does not respond to the keyboard you will get help for the first
component that contains the one for which you requested help and that
responds to keyboard events. The much clumsier method for obtaining
context sensitive help from the menu does not have this problem but
you may still find it less complicated to press the
key and use the hypertext links to
navigate to the help page that you want.
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Chris Flatters
Thu Mar 14 16:02:50 MST 1996