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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help for X applications
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Date: 18 Dec 89 21:12:38 GMT
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In article <2241@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, stevef@sidd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
(Steve Fanshier) writes:
> What are the standard methods (and nonstandard too, I guess)
> of providing help to a user of a window application? 

According to the style guides, DECwindows applications should have a
menu bar at the top of the main window, with HELP on the far right.
Motif has the same menu bar, plus HELP buttons on dialog boxes.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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