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Re: Good toolkit for creating program help

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On Jul 14, 2:25 pm, RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBr...@spamweary.invalid>
wrote:
> On 14/07/2011 10:16, Ross wrote:
>
> > On Jul 14, 5:24 am, Roedy Green<see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:31:49 -0700 (PDT), Ross<rossclem...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
> >>> Hi. I need to add help to an application. I'd like the standard table
> >>> of contents plus the ability to search by keywords.
>
> >> seehttp://mindprod.com/jgloss/help.html
>
> > Hi. The Java glossary is a very useful resource in general. But, I'm
> > not sure how the entry on "help" is relevant to the current question.
>
> As readers may or may not know, Roedy often just scans questions for
> keywords and then answers without attempting to understand the question.
>
> As I recall his rationale is that other people, whose own questions
> involve some of the same keywords, may encounter his answer when
> searching the newsgroup archive, and some of them may therefore find the
> answer useful even when the OP might not.
>
> See past postings for prior critique of this approach.


I think in this case Roedy just meant:

  http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javahelp.html

although that section doesn't contain much beyond a pointer the
JavaHelp site.

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    Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Warren Tang <nospam@tangcs.com> - 2011-07-13 11:47 +0800
      Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 01:38 -0700
        Re: Good toolkit for creating program help markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-13 08:24 -0700
          Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-07-13 15:42 -0600
            Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 15:15 -0700
      Re: Good toolkit for creating program help lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 10:22 -0700
  Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-07-13 21:24 -0700
    Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Ross <rossclement@gmail.com> - 2011-07-14 02:16 -0700
      Re: Good toolkit for creating program help RedGrittyBrick <RedGrittyBrick@spamweary.invalid> - 2011-07-14 14:25 +0100
        Re: Good toolkit for creating program help Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-07-14 09:26 -0700

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