What's This? Help

Context-sensitive Help within a picture is in the form of What's This? Help. What's This? Help is a simple but highly useful form of Help that is designed to allow operators to quickly access Help information and return to their work. To get What's This Help on an object within an iFIX picture in run mode, an operator presses Shift+F1, points and clicks on the object, and a brief explanation appears.

Example

In the following example, an operator has pressed Shift+F1 in a picture while in run mode. The mouse cursor changes to the What's This? Help pointer.

 
 

While in What's This? Help mode, operators can click any object in the picture (or even the picture itself) for a Help pop-up window on that object.

 
 

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