Inside Macintosh: Apple Guide Complete /

Preface - About This Book

This book provides all the information you need to successfully produce an Apple Guide help system for your application. By reading it, you'll learn

• Guide Script, an authoring language for creating your help source files
• Guide Maker, the application for compiling (or building) your help source files into Apple Guide help files (known as guide files)
• authoring tips and suggestions for designing your guide files
• the application programming interface for Apple Guide, containing the functions used to integrate your guide files into your application

In the CD that accompanies this book, you'll find Guide Maker, a sample guide file (SurfWriter Guide), and a searchable command reference. It also contains Read Me files for all specific areas.