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The pop-out help window

Overview

Help can be accessed from within ANY-maze at any time, simply by switching to the Help page. However this can be inconvenient if you want to see the help at the same time as the page you're currently working on.

ANY-maze allows you to see both things at once by 'popping out' a dedicated help window that you can position anywhere on the screen and continue working, without having to switch between pages. This is particularly useful if you've got more than one monitor connected to your computer, as you could have the main ANY-maze software open on one screen, and the popped-out help window on another.

Note that unlike the built-in Help page, the pop-out help window is not synchronised to the current context, so whichever topic you select in this window will remain selected, regardless of what you do in the ANY-maze software.

Opening the pop-out help window

You can open the pop-out help window in one of the following ways:

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Using the button in the ANY-maze title bar

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From the Help page itself, using the Pop out button in the Window section of the ribbon bar

If you use the button in the title bar, and the pop-out help window is already open but not visible, it will be brought into view and the topic shown will be the one relevant to whatever you are currently working on.

Showing expanded or reduced controls

By default, the pop-out help window will show a minimal window, with no ribbon bar and only a small selection of controls. This is to try and reduce the amount of screen space that the window takes up, only showing the relevant help topic and nothing else.

If you want to show a full ribbon bar and help contents, use the button to change the window to a 'full' window. Note that the size of the window doesn't change, so you might need to resize it to see everything that you need to. To change back to the minimal window, use the Show reduced controls button in the Window section of the ribbon bar.

Once you're viewing the window with full controls, you can toggle whether or not to view the help contents using the View contents button in the ribbon bar.

Note that all details to do with the layout of the help window, such as whether the window is being shown full or reduced, and whether the contents side-bar is being displayed, are stored so that the pop-out help window will open in the same way the next time it is used. These layout settings are stored separately for each ANY-maze user.

Auto-sizing the popped-out window

If you've got the help window popped-out, you can ask ANY-maze to automatically set it to a sensible size using the Auto-size window button. This will tile the ANY-maze window and the help window on the screen, such that the help window takes up a small column of space to the right of the screen (enough to see a sensible amount of the current help topic), and ANY-maze fills the rest of the screen.

Showing the help topic for the current context

As I mentioned above, the pop-out help window is not synchronised to the current context. Whichever topic you select in this window will remain selected, regardless of what you do in the ANY-maze software. However you can quickly ask it to display the relevant help topic for the current context, using the Synchronise now button.

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