Help Menu

IDE Menu

The Help Menu displays commands that display documentation or other information about the currently selected object or about the system. The commands on the menu are:

Help on Selected Symbol --

Display the html page for the currently selected symbol. If no help page exists, displays a dialog saying that. If multiple pages exist (because, e.g., the symbol names more than one type of object), a dialog displaying the choices appears.

Help on Selected Dialog --

Displays the documentation for the selected dialog.

Tree of Knowledge --

This command displays the Allegro Tree of Knowledge dialog, which displays a map to the available documentation in outline format.

ANSI Common Lisp --

This command displays in a HTML Browser introduction page of the ANSI CL Spec (located in the ansicl/ subdirectory of the Allegro Directory).

Allegro CL Documentation --

This command displays, in a HTML Browser, the introduction to the Allegro CL documtation, introduction.htm.

Symbol Index --

This command displays, in a HTML Browser, the index to the Allegro CL documtation, index.htm. (The idex lists all documented symbols along with other material.)

Shortcut Keys --

Display the Shortcut Keys dialog showing shortcut keys.

Navigator --

Display the Navigator dialog.

CG Examples --

Display the Navigator dialog open to the Examples tab.

Dialog-Building Tutorial --

Displays the Navigator dialog open to the Tutorial tab.

Quick Symbol Info --

Prints information about the currently-selected symbol to the status bar of the Project Window.

Quick Class Info --

Prints information about the currently selected symbol (which should name a class) to the status bar of the Project Window.

Describe Selected Object --

Print to the Debug window the results of applying describe to the current selection.

Symbol Doc String --

Prints the Function documentation string, if any, to the Debug window. Note that most Allegro CL and IDE objects do not have documentation strings.

Download Patches --

Displays the Download Patches dialog for downloading all or selected Allegro CL patches.

Connect to www.franz.com --

Displays the Franz Inc. home page (which has technical as well as marketing and sales information) in a browser.

About Allegro CL --

Displays a dialog with information about the current version of Allegro CL.

Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

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Created 2000.10.5.