On Thu, 11 May 2000, Nicole DePriest wrote:
> I'm going to add a related question. Does anyone else have trouble
> closing the separate Netscape windows that open up with the individual
> help files? The only way I have determined is to exit help.start(). It
> would be nice to be able to close the help file but not help.start()
> entirely. In fact, if you accidentally "close" the help.start window
> instead of "exiting" it, the helpfile windows are still around and you
> have to exit S entirely to get rid of them.
>
> For some reason only the menubar containing Bookmarks and File Location
> appear in the helpfile window instead of the File Edit View Go etc..
> menubar. So if I want to print the helpfile, I note where the file is
> located and call Netscape to open the file directly. That way I have the
> ability to print the file. A rather roundabout and inefficent method.
>
> We use 5.1 Release 1 for Sun SPARC. Right now, I just bypass help.start()
> entirely and rely on help(). Is there some options that can be set to get
> the File Edit View etc.. menubar to show up in the individual helpfile
> windows? Is there some Netscape trick we are unaware of?
I'm not sure how to get the menubar you want to come up in Netscape,
however I don't think that you need it. The keystroke alternatives given
in the menus appear to work, at least for me. To close an individual help
file window (in Unix) just type alt-w. To print the contents of the
window, alt-p. And so on for the other ones. I agree that sometimes
having the menus in the window is handy, but it isn't always needed.
Note that this solution has nothing to do with Splus, it's just a function
of Netscape.
Mark
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Mark Irwin (irwin@stat.ohio-state.edu)
Department of Statistics
Ohio State University
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