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Suggestion: Context Sensitive Documentation access Via editor

by James Brad Barnette · in Torque 3D Professional · 06/12/2009 (8:14 am) · 2 replies

It would be nice if when for instance I was in the editor and I had say the water plane selected and I hit "F1" it would open the Documentation to the section on the water plane.

Ideally this would detect if there was an active internet connection first and then if there was go to the live Docs if not go to the local copy.
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Employee Michael Perry
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#1
06/12/2009 (9:22 am)
We've already integrated a way to open the docs from the Help menu in the editor (next Beta). This will always point to the offline documentation. If you have read through the Introduction, there is a link that tells you where to find the online docs and how to download them. No need to go crazy with an internet connection check.

Now, opening an individual page is very interesting. I know what command to feed the console to do so. I'll look into this.

Torque 3D Owner Brett Williams
#2
06/12/2009 (9:26 am)
I have to second this request, especially with some of the new UI features and such popping up. If context help is created it would help new features be used to their full potential because a user could rapidly gain knowledge about it by just selecting that feature.

This would be really cool to see, if you can get it implemented Michael.