Interactive help facility

Scrolling through a lengthy manual page to find a particular topic can be tedious. We created an interactive help facility for xtpanel, which is a series of panels that present, in a menu-driven form, the various parts of the manual page, along with some other pertinent information. The top level panel of the help facility is shown in Figure . General information is shown in the scrollable text field on the main panel; the menu lets the user choose from a list of additional topics.

 

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Figure 15 The xtpanel interactive help facility. The main panel displays general information, and a menu allows users to choose from a list of other topics.