Where is Search Documentation? was Re: Documentation & Books

[Marian Petrides]

Oops.  Sorry.  I thought you were being sarcastic.

I am using Rev 2.1.2 and my Help menu drop down has:
Documentation
Transcript Dictionary
Search Documentation <----- this is what you want
----
License Revolution
Revolution Support
Check for updates


To get to this menu I did the following:

Start Rev.  Look at menubar at top.  At top right, see Help Menu.  
Select it, notice the third item down:  Search Documentation.  There I 
am

At least that's what I see in Rev 2.1.2 running on Mac OS X.   I 
haven't had a chance yet to try it out with other OSes nor to see if I 
have 2.0 and it is somehow different from 2.1.2.  Will do that in a few 
hours--have some errands to run.

Meanwhile, if this doesn't solve your problem, please let me know which 
OS you are using (I already know you are using Rev 2.0).
M

On Jul 8, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote:

> Marian Petrides <mpetrides at earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Marty Billingsley wrote:
>>> Er.....so how *do* you use the Search Documentation tool?
>> The point wasn't how Mark or I use it, the point was how someone who 
>> is
>> just starting out uses it. Sheesh.
>>
>> Or was that a real, not rhetorical, question?
> A real question!
>
> I launch Rev 2.0, go to the Help menu and see the following topics:
> Revolution Documentation
> Transcript Dictionary
> Tutorials
> Tips
> License Revolution
> Revolution Support
> Check for Updates Online
>
> Okay, the first item gives me the following options:
> About the Documentation
> Learning Revolution:
>   For New Developers
>   Tutorials
>   Using the Free Edition
> Using Revolution:
>   Development Guide
>   Transcript Language Dictionary
>   Transcript Cookbook
>   Troubleshooting
> Application Reference:
>   Menus
>   Shortcuts
> Finding Help:
>   Glossary
>   Additional Resources
>
> Now, when I first started using Rev 18 months ago I did the tutorials 
> and poked
> around in the help, looked at a couple of recipes, browsed through the 
> tips,
> etc.  Found the Transcript Dictionary to be very helpful if I had a 
> clue what
> the command/message/property might be that I'm trying to use.  I've 
> often
> wished for a command that would search all available documentation for 
> a
> keyword, but haven't found one in the help items listed above.  Now I 
> find
> out from you that such a command exists!  Where is it? Why isn't it the
> first thing in the help menu?
>
> This is indeed a real question.  To rephrase, how do you get to the 
> Search
> Documentation tool?  (I'm sure I can figure out how to use it once I 
> find
> it....)
>
>   - marty
>
> --
> Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
> The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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