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I'm trolling through the Apple Human Interface Guidelines for another bug I'm working on. Context-sensitive help should be available via a small round question mark button in the bottom left of dialogs. "http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGControls/chapter_18_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000359-DontLinkElementID_18314"
This is being addressed in bug 108509, not just for the Mac, but for all platforms.
Moving this bug to Tod since he owns that bug, too. I'll let him mark duplicate or whatever is appropriate.
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
We have the image in the dialogs. The image looks little out of place in a Mac, but to have the standard Mac help image, we need support from SWT. Right now SWT only supports NSRoundedBezelStyle & NSShadowlessSquareBezelStyle for bezelStyles. We need NSHelpButtonBezelStyle to have the help button. If SWT provide a SWT.HELP (like SWT.SEARCH) to create the help button, (or provide support in any other way) Platform UI can use it. Assigning to SWT for comments.
A flag for a HELP style would be new API, but we can certainly look at it for 3.7.
Silenio, is there a standard 'help' button/icon style on Windows or Linux? In Cocoa this would be a button with NSHelpButtonBezelStyle set.
(In reply to comment #6) > Silenio, is there a standard 'help' button/icon style on Windows or Linux? In > Cocoa this would be a button with NSHelpButtonBezelStyle set. AFAIK, Windows doesn't have any special image for Help buttons, but I guess gtk has it: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/windows-utility.html.en
(In reply to comment #6) > Silenio, is there a standard 'help' button/icon style on Windows or Linux? In > Cocoa this would be a button with NSHelpButtonBezelStyle set. I believe this is the GTK equivalent: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkButton.html#gtk-button-new-from-stock Note that on GTK it is just a regular button with a stock image. On cocoa, it is a special button (rounded and pink). At first I though you could provide just the image (Display.getSystemImage(SWT.ICON_HELP) and on platforms where the image is not available (i. e. Windows), we would return null. But it would not work well for Cocoa. Windows has WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP, but it is button in the title bar only.
(In reply to comment #8) > Note that on GTK it is just a regular button with a stock image. On cocoa, it > is a special button (rounded and pink). At first I though you could provide > just the image (Display.getSystemImage(SWT.ICON_HELP) and on platforms where > the image is not available (i. e. Windows), we would return null. But it would > not work well for Cocoa. Right. The help button on Mac is a style all its own. > Windows has WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP, but it is button in the title bar only. I was thinking that we could just use the Eclipse Help image in a borderless button on platforms where we would have to emulate it. See bug 108509, or just bring up the Preferences dialog.
(In reply to comment #9) > > Windows has WS_EX_CONTEXTHELP, but it is button in the title bar only. > I was thinking that we could just use the Eclipse Help image in a borderless > button on platforms where we would have to emulate it. See bug 108509, or just > bring up the Preferences dialog. I believe the eclipse button is actually a ToolBar with one item, but I agree it could be just a button with a image. Windows haa standard image for help (see Start-> Help and Support). I am not sure we can get a hold of it. Maybe with the theme drawing calls (DrawThemeBackground()).
Bug triaged, visit https://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/Devel/Triage for more information.
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