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Modern help-system for windows applications

Currently I'm in a redesign of an old Windows-Desktop-Application. One goal of the redesign is to implement a modern looking UI in Office2010-Style with Ribbons. Additional to our UI we want to implement a modern looking online-help. Currently we…
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CMS-like help framework for web applications?

We have a relatively large web application (>200 pages) to which we need to begin adding help screens. We were wondering if there is a CMS-like application that is particularly well suited to such endeavors (rather than trying to build all the…
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Finding R help pages not named for specific commands

Most of R's help pages are designed to provide documentation of particular commands, and can easily be found if you know the command and are trying to figure out how to use it. But there are a number of help pages that do not relate primarily to…
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R: Finding code with authors' comments, if any

Is there any reasonably simple, straightforward function along the line of getAnywhere() which returns the source code of a function with any comments, such that if I see no comments I can be confident that there are none, whether the code is in R, …
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How Do I Tell Which Menu Item is Open in Delphi?

I am implementing context sensitive help in my Delphi 2009 application. It works fine except in one case. I cannot identify that I am in the main menu, and which menu item has been opened. What I want to do is if the user has opened the File menu…
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Implementing a help system

Questions: is there any default way of presenting a help feature in Android? AFAIK, no. So, it follows: is there such a library or component to help (or trying to) standardize this? There is also that green tutorial when you first turn on the…
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R: How can I find the source code for the R formula parser or interpreter?

I am looking for the code of the base R formula parser or interpreter, that translates the formula the user types into the variables and transformations used to bridge the data to the model matrix. A number of packages have their own formula…
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Why does the Python help function applied to an instance return a page about the parent class in some cases and not it others?

I'm trying to understand how to get useful results when the help function is used to interrogate objects created in my code. I'm puzzled by different behavior for different classes. Cls1 = type( 'FirstClass', (str,), {'__doc__':'My new…
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What does the -raw switch parameter in Get-Content really do in Powershell? Finding helpful documentation

I've been trying to work with an API that only accepts raw text or base64 encoded values in a JSON object. The content I'm POSTing is data from an XML file. So I used Powershell's Get-Content cmdlet (without -Raw) to retrieve the data from the .xml…
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How to redefine help listener for StructuredTextEditor

We are developing Eclipse plugin project. We are using StructuredTextEditor for displaying XML data. Now we are integrating our documentation via the standard Eclipse help system. But for StructuredTextEditor it is not working. For…
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Behavior in Delphi Documentation Viewer

Delphi XE2 Update 4 Hotfix 1 and Help Update 6 for XE2. If I am in the IDE, highlight an object name such as TLabel, then hit F1, I am transported to the description of Vcl.StdCtrls.TLabel in Delphi's help application. The page gives me information…
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Designing a Help System

I'm implementing a help system for a desktop app (Win32) and am looking for how to go about designing it. What kind of structure should a help system have, what's actually helpful for the user? e.g. Should the help system be a big list of FAQ's…
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PowerShell $_ syntax

In this answer the author proposed the following snippet: dir -Path C:\FolderName -Filter *.fileExtension -Recurse | %{$_.FullName} I can understand the majority of it, but I'm unable to search documentation for the last part. The output of the…
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PowerShell - Visual Studio Code - How to disable 'more' on long results?

I keep having to hit the enter key when the results are longer than my screen in Visual Studio Code. Example Get-Help Remove-Item - detailed How can I get all the results on the screen without having to hit enter on 'more' please? Thanks for your…
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Get-Help for .trim / -trim, .replace / -replace, .split / -split and other string operators

PowerShell has a pretty good built-in help system that I use a lot and I'm able to see all help options with Get-Help * and query Cmdlets or can look up Topics with Get-Help about_* and then say Get-Help about_compar* to open the Comparison…
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