First development release of a free tool to examine Help Books, their problems, and search Help for specified apps.
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When it was written, Apple’s documentation of its Help system was incomplete and misleading. It simply doesn’t work like that.
In Sierra, does yours work properly, not work at all, or give you incorrect figures?
This new version includes its docs as a Help Book, and adds Tooltips to explain the output and controls.
There’s more to the Finder’s illusions than plain folders. Here’s an explanation of packages and bundles, and how to use and abuse them.
Apple will be judged by its ability to surprise us with the new, revelatory, and enabling – which have become less frequent.
Is Sierra’s Apple Help on its way out? If not, how does it differ from that documented 8 years ago for Leopard – when the current docs were last revised.
Another epic journey, this time to make an Installer package for my Blowhole command tool.
So how can you add proper help to your app? Amazingly, Xcode’s Help doesn’t even mention Help. It’s time to invest in Help Crafter.
This command tool can now write just the integer passed to it as a log message. This is ideal for instrumenting scripts and apps for analysis.
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