GAMBIT USER'S GUIDE: 4. GAMBIT MENU COMMANDS

4.4 Help Commands

The Help command menu allows you to access online documentation by means of the local web browser and to display information on the current version of the program. When you click Help on the menu bar, GAMBIT opens the Help command menu. The Help command menu includes the following options:

Quick
Table of Contents
About

The Quick option accesses context-sensitive online help. The Table of Contents option allows you to browse the entire suite of GAMBIT documentation by means of a hyperlinked table of contents. The About option displays information regarding the currently running version of GAMBIT.

4.4.1 Quick

When you select Quick from the Help menu, GAMBIT changes the appearance of the cursor to represent a hand with a pointing finger. To access the online documentation associated with any component currently displayed on the GUI, left-click on the component. When you do so, GAMBIT launches the local web browser and opens and displays documentation associated with the component.

For example, to view documentation related to a currently open specification form, such as the Create Real Brick form, perform the following operations.

Step	Location	Action	Comments
1	Main menu bar	Click Help	Opens the Help command menu
2	Help command menu	Click Quick	Selects the context-sensitive help option
3	Specification form	Click anywhere on the Create Real Brick form	Launches the local browser (or accesses any currently open browser) and opens the file containing documentation pertaining to the form

4.4.2 Table of Contents

When you select Table of Contents from the Help menu, GAMBIT launches the local web browser and opens a file that constitutes a hyperlinked table of contents for the entire GAMBIT documentation suite. To locate a subject of interest in the GAMBIT online help document, use the hyperlinked table of contents to navigate through GAMBIT online documentation.

4.4.1 About

When you select the About option from the Help menu, GAMBIT opens a form that displays information related to the currently running version of the program (see below).