Re: [PNLGRP] Showing help panel text without pressing help?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fasten Flensburg has some great examples of using the help panel with commands.  I’m sure if you search you’ll find them, I think he put most of his stuff on a web site since the magazine he wrote for went down.   

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects



> On Jun 21, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Brian Johnson <brian.johnson.mn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's an API for that:
>
> Display Help (QUHDSPH) API
>
> https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.2?topic=ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/quhdsph.htm
>
>
> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 3:23 PM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > lately I'm slowly extending my programs with online help. I feel that the markup language for help panel group panels smells a lot like HTML. Good! Makes it easy for me to format actual help text. :-)
> >
> > I wonder if and how it might be possible to abuse this formatting capability to create a program which opens the PNLGRP object, and shows the formatted text without any user intervention. A "README Program", sort of.
> >
> > Or am I completely on the wrong track?
>
>
>
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