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Help Editor/Viewer
The Help editor or viewer is actually the same window as the built-in text editor, but with different menu options and capabilities.
When used as a viewer of component help, no editing is allowed and the File menu provides printing options only. Consequently, the Find & Replace option of the Edit menu is not available. The Word Wrap option of the Character menu can be used to toggle the insertion of extra line breaks at the right margin, so that the text fits in the window.
To edit component help you can either select the Help Editor option in the tools menu or the Help Editor button in the Edit Object dialog box. In the latter case a Done option appears in the main menu and the File menu provides printing options and a Cancel choice. By selecting Done you accept any changes made to the help text and return to the Edit Object dialog. From ATPDraw version 5.7 the help file can be RichText 1.0 with customizable font format from the Context menu (right click). Text can also be pasted in from WordPad, but bitmaps are not supported.
When the editor is invoked from the tools menu, the File menu will contain an Open and a Save option. The text buffer is initially empty, so you have to select File/Open in to order to load the help text of a support file.
In ATPDraw version 5.7 a syntax highlight feature is enabled for MODELS.
The default help editor/view font can be changed by selecting the Font option in the Character menu. A detailed description of available options can be found in the menu options help topic.
The status bar at the bottom of the window displays the current line and character position of the text buffer caret, and the buffer modified status. This status bar is not visible when viewing component help.