Information Presentation Facility Enhancements

A number of functional enhancements have been made to the Information Presentation Facility (IPF), which provides context-sensitive help panels and online documentation. These enhancements are as follows:

  • The ability to predefine default sizes for help panels; these sizes are used unless overridden by the calling routine.

  • The ability to define hypertext and hypergraphic links across multiple concatenated help or documentation files.

  • Support for multiple viewports within a panel, allowing different types of complimentary information to be displayed together but to be manipulated independently.

  • Dynamic data formatting, allowing help text or explanatory information to be formatted and placed into a help panel at run time, thereby allowing help information to be closely tied to the current user action.

  • Support for tables in help files and online documentation.

  • Support for multiple fonts and text sizes.

    These enhancements are described in greater detail in New Presentation Manager Features.

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