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Help Button on Find Popup is missing

NWC 1.75 on left, NWC2 on right.
Registered user since 1996

Re: Help Button on Find Popup is missing

Reply #1 –
This is true for all NWC2 dialogs. These were removed early in NWC2 development (years ago).

Re: Help Button on Find Popup is missing

Reply #2 –
Then the context sensitive help for the items on the page need to be changed. Here's an example:
Quote from: IDH_FINDBYEXPRESSION
This find method can be used to find almost anything on a staff, one item at a time. For simple text find operations, simply type in the text you want to find and the text in the active staff will be compared with the text you entered. You can place an asterisk (*) in your string and it will act as a wildcard character, matching anything in that position of the text.
Every object on the staff has a character representation, and you can use an advanced find to locate an item by its character representation. For the more advanced find operation, start your expression with a vertical bar (|) followed by the text label that represents the object you are trying to find.

For more details, use the Help button.
The help page in 1.75 is useful. It exists in NWC2, but you have to use Help->Search for Help on...->Find
Registered user since 1996

Re: Help Button on Find Popup is missing

Reply #3 –
I support the idea of context sensitive help, but I think the traditional question mark beside the X in the upper right corner of the dialogue box does that adequately, at least in the Find popout dialogue. 

If you click the question mark in the upper right corner of the popout dialogue box. then the first dialogue window, you get this:
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This find method can be used to find almost anything on a staff, one item at a time. For simple text find operations, simply type in the text you want to find and the text in the active staff will be compared with the text you entered. You can place an asterisk (*) in your string and it will act as a wildcard character, matching anything in that position of the text.
Every object on the staff has a character representation, and you can use an advanced find to locate an item by its character representation. For the more advanced find operation, start your expression with a vertical bar (|) followed by the text label that represents the object you are trying to find.
For more details, use the Help button.

If you click the arrow and then the second dialogue box, you get this instead.
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This find method can be used to find almost anything on a staff, one item at a time. For simple text find operations, simply type in the text you want to find and the text in the active staff will be compared with the text you entered. You can place an asterisk (*) in your string and it will act as a wildcard character, matching anything in that position of the text.
Every object on the staff has a character representation, and you can use an advanced find to locate an item by its character representation. For the more advanced find operation, start your expression with a vertical bar (|) followed by the text label that represents the object you are trying to find.
For more details, use the Help button.

Restoring the Help button would be a nice to have rather than a need to have, if all the popout dialogues have question marks (I didn't check).

Re: Help Button on Find Popup is missing

Reply #4 –
Quote from: David Palmquist –
Restoring the Help button would be a nice to have rather than a need to have
Now that NWC2 is out of beta testing, the help file should not refer to buttons that have been removed.
For a new user this rises above "nice to have."
Registered user since 1996

Re: Help Button on Find Popup is missing

Reply #5 –
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the help file should not refer to buttons that have been removed
I'm with you on this.  I wouldn't upgrade the Help button from nice to have to need to have, but there should be internal consistency.  If the references to Help buttons remain in the help file, the buttons should be brought back.  That would be preferable to removing the references, if the help file contains more information than what shows up with the question mark.