Comments on: Mac OS X (10.5): Bypassing the default Help feature http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-7889 Pierre Igot Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:50:32 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/#comment-7889 Thanks for the additional information. It's still worth either creating stand-alone help viewers with Fluid or using bookmarks in Safari, though, I think. Thanks for the additional information. It’s still worth either creating stand-alone help viewers with Fluid or using bookmarks in Safari, though, I think.

]]> By: Warren Beck http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-7888 Warren Beck Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:37:12 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/#comment-7888 I regret to point out as a final reply (I promise) that the pages spawned from the Search menu results I mentioned above has the "stay in front" attribute even though they below to the Fluid help-file browser. I regret to point out as a final reply (I promise) that the pages spawned from the Search menu results I mentioned above has the “stay in front” attribute even though they below to the Fluid help-file browser.

]]> By: Warren Beck http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-7887 Warren Beck Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:31:25 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/#comment-7887 By the way, an advantage of using Fluid is apparently the search feature in the Help menu for the Fluid help-file browser is that the Search function on the Help file works. After a short delay, a search in Pages Help.app (made by Fluid) produced 5 menu entries and a show all results entry. A choice of each of these spawns new pages with the indicated content. This is a better behavior, I think, than the built-in help browser. By the way, an advantage of using Fluid is apparently the search feature in the Help menu for the Fluid help-file browser is that the Search function on the Help file works. After a short delay, a search in Pages Help.app (made by Fluid) produced 5 menu entries and a show all results entry. A choice of each of these spawns new pages with the indicated content. This is a better behavior, I think, than the built-in help browser.

]]> By: Warren Beck http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/comment-page-1/#comment-7886 Warren Beck Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:22:01 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2008/02/01/mac-os-x-105-bypassing-the-default-help-feature/#comment-7886 Thanks for posting this. I just tried making a help-file specific browser using Fluid, and it worked great. I'm going to do this for all my apps. Boy, I hope that Apple fixes this in a Leopard update. What the $#@^#$%#$%$ were they thinking? Thanks for posting this. I just tried making a help-file specific browser using Fluid, and it worked great. I’m going to do this for all my apps.

Boy, I hope that Apple fixes this in a Leopard update. What the $#@^#$%#$%$ were they thinking?

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