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Subject:Re: Question: Context Help for Java Apps From:Nancy Hickman <nhickman -at- GVI -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:21:12 -0500
You can call WinHelp from Java, but depending on settings and browsers,
if it is browser-based, this can violate the security environment. So,
yes and no. Does that help? :) If you can call it, your what's this
popups won't work as they do in a Windows/NT environment.
You can create context-sensitive Help for Java, but if you want popup
what's this Help, you have to do some additional coding for that, which
would be better handled at the beginning of a project. Yes, it's doable,
though, but it is not a one-shot "conversion" project.
-- Nancy Hickman
Kathryn Marshall wrote:
>
> We are developing an application in Java. We're using WinHelp to create
> online help, but the programmer tells me that context-sensitive help is
> not possible because of the limitations of Java. Is this true? Something
> about that just doesn't sound right.
>
> Anyone out there developing applications and online help in Java?
>
> TIA,
> Kathy Marshall
> ModaCAD, Inc.
> Culver City, CA
>
