Obtaining Online Help

The Hardware Debugger includes online help that you can invoke from the menu bar, the toolbar, and the dialog boxes.

Help Menu

Use the following Help menu commands to get help.

• The Help Topics command opens Help and lists the online help topics available for the Hardware Debugger. From the Help Topics page, you can jump to command information or step-by-step instructions for using the Hardware Debugger. After you open help, you can click the Help Topics button in the Help window to return to the help topic list.
  
  
• The About Hardware Debugger command displays a popup window that shows the version number of the Hardware Debugger software and a copyright notice.
  
  

Toolbar Help Button

You can obtain context-sensitive help as follows.

1. Click the Help button in the toolbar.
   
   
   
   The cursor changes to a question mark.
   
   
2. Click once with the left mouse button on the menu item or toolbar button for which you want help.
   
   The Hardware Debugger displays help for the selected command or option.
   
   

NOTE

You can also press Shift F1 to obtain context-sensitive help.

Help Button in Dialog Boxes

Many of the dialog boxes in the Design Manager and Flow Engine have a Help button that you can click to obtain help for the dialog box with which you are working. You can also press Alt H or F1 on your keyboard while positioned over the dialog box to obtain help.

F1 Key

Pressing the F1 key on a dialog box displays help on that dialog box. Pressing the F1 key is the same as selecting Help Topics from the Help menu, if no dialog boxes are displayed.