Comments on: Context-Sensitive Help — An Easy Method Using Javascript

By: Vinish

Vinish — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:35:09 +0000

THis was a great piece of information about CS Help for beginners. It was detailed, clear and very well told; my trainees are indebted to the article!

Thank you for the effort.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:27:17 +0000

Scott, thanks for the heads-up about the new site. I was actually thinking about the scripts on your old site last week, and how they were going away. I’m glad to hear you transferred the content to a new site.

And I’m also glad to see that you used WordPress to create the new site. Just curious, but will you be blogging from the site too, or are you just using WordPress as a traditional website?

By: scott deloach

scott deloach — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:49:40 +0000

hi all,
I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve moved the User First demos to my new website.

You can check out all of the context-sensitive help tips and the dynamic embedded help demo at http://www.clickstart.net/demos.

let me know if you have any questions–
.scott

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:05:41 +0000

Sorry, I'm not sure. It depends on the language. See this site: http://www.userfirst.net/tips1.html. I know there's an example there.

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By: mahi

mahi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:03:41 +0000

How can we call help file related to a particular context by pressing F1 key. Can you provide script for this.

By: mahi

mahi — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:57:13 +0000

How can we call help related to the context by pressing F1 key. Can you provide script for this.

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Core Dump — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:40:57 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:52:08 +0000

Heidi,

Thanks for sending the link to that goldmine of a site. It took me a while before I really explored it -- it has some excellent scripts there, including an equivalent to the one I posted above.

Under their title, "Opening a context-sensitive HTML-based Help topic from a Web page," this is the code they use to call help by referencing the name of the page:

< script language="JavaScript">
function openHelp() {
helpurl = location.href;
begin=helpurl.lastIndexOf('/');
begin = begin + 1;
end=helpurl.lastIndexOf('m');
end=end + 1;
helpurl = "h_" + helpurl.substring(begin, end);
window.open(helpurl, 'helpwin','toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0,menubar=0,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,width=300,height=200');
}
< /script>

open help window

I didn't understand how they did the Embedded Help Demo sample. Do you know?

Thanks again for the link.