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Customizing the On-Line Help
In SDL Suite and TTCN Suite, you can request on-line help by selecting a menu choice in a Help menu, a pop-up menu or by clicking a Help button in a dialog. For more information about Help menu choices, see Help Menu.
To be able to view the on-line help, you need to have one of the following HTML-viewers installed:
Also, you have to make sure that the on-line help files (in HTML-format) have been installed.
In the on-line help, you can also find information about how to use it.
Configuring the Help Environment
- Double-click the icon. This will expand it and list the available help preferences.
- Select and, if required, adjust the preference HelpViewer to an adequate value, either Firefox, Netscape or Internet Explorer. Use the option menu that appears at the bottom of the window to select the value.
- Select and, if required, adjust the preference parameter
FirefoxCommand, NetscapeCommand or
InternetExplorerCommand to a command that starts HelpViewer in your computer environment. Type the command in the text field that appears at the bottom of the window.
- To limit local disk space usage in a multi-user environment, you may optionally put the on-line help files on a network server (unless you already have a network installation of SDL Suite and TTCN Suite, which is usually the case on UNIX). To do this, you move all files in the help directory and its subdirectories (available in the local installation directory, by default C:\IBM\Rational\SDL_TTCN_Suite6.3) to the network server area. This step may already have been performed on your computer system, so check where the on-line help files are stored.
- Then check and adjust the preference parameter HelpDirectory to the help directory on the network server.
- Select and, if required adjust the preference parameter HelpDirectory to the help directory (by default C:\IBM\Rational\SDL_TTCN_Suite6.3\help in Windows and $telelogic/help/ on UNIX).
- Save the preference settings and exit the Preference Manager. The on-line help is now configured in accordance to your computer environment.
Timeout Issues
When you request on-line help from SDL Suite or TTCN Suite, the Postmaster supervises the communication. On a heavily loaded computer system, the help viewer may fail to respond within the time limit specified by the environment variable STARTTIMEOUT. When this occurs on UNIX, a message is appended to the console window. The environment variable should be adjusted to a higher value to match the typical response times for the computer system where the help viewer is running.
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