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After your booklet is converted properly, you can work with your programmers to integrate context-sensitive help with the application. On the iMaven project, I documented the steps in this process and included these steps in a programmer's guide for the project. This way, if programmers needed to know how to hook up context-sensitive help for a dialog box that they developed, I could refer them to the programmer's guide. These steps are summarized below. Set up Jelp. For programmers to set up their workstation to run Jelp, they created a Jelp directory on their local machine and copied the jelpviewer.zip file to this newly created directory. They also had to properly set their CLASSPATH as discussed previously. Copy the actual help files. After setting up their Jelp environment, the programmers could then copy the booklet directory and all its files to their Jelp directory. On the iMaven project, we used StarTeam, a source code management system. After I checked the help files into this system, they could check them out into their Jelp directory.
Modify your code. In the code that contains Help button functionality, the programmers needed
to do the following:
Integrate the JelpViewer with the main application window. To integrate the JelpViewer with
the main window (so it would display after the user clicks the Help Topics command), our programmers
needed to do the following:
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