Introduction to Online Help

This programming topic describes the various types of on-line help found in OS X. Your application rarely needs to contain code to display on-line help. Instead, you use Interface Builder and Xcode to set up on-line help for your application.

Organization of This Document

This programming topic contains the following articles:

• Comprehensive Help describes the comprehensive help you can provide.

• Tooltips describes the short bits of text that can describe a user interface element.

• Specifying the Comprehensive Help File describes how to specify the location for your comprehensive help.