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Help system, What's this? Help, Context-sensitive Help, Constraint messages

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Help system The PCL 6 printer driver includes a full-featured Help system to provide assistance with printing and configuration options. The following Help options are available. ● What's this? Help ● Context-sensitive Help ● Constraint messages What's this? Help "What's this?" Help is supported in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. Gain access to "What's this?" Help messages in any of the following ways: ● Right-click a control and click What's this?, and a pop-up Help window appears. ● Click the ? button at the upper-right corner of the frame, next to the X, to change the cursor to an arrow with a question mark. Use this special cursor to select a control, and the pop-up Help window for that feature appears. ● Press the F1 key, and the Help window for the currently selected control appears. Context-sensitive Help Press the Help button on a printer-driver tab or in a dialog box, and context-sensitive Help appears. Constraint messages Constraint messages are unsolicited messages that appear in response to specific actions. These messages appear in response to selections that are illogical or impossible given the capabilities of the product or the current settings of other controls. For example, if you click Print on Both Sides and then change the paper type to Transparency, a message appears asking you to resolve this conflict. Figure 4-1 A typical constraint message 110 Chapter 4 HP printer driver for Windows ENWW

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Help system
The PCL 6 printer driver includes a full-featured Help system to provide assistance with printing and
configuration options. The following Help options are available.
What's this? Help
Context-sensitive Help
Constraint messages
What's this? Help
"What's this?" Help is supported in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. Gain access to
"What's this?" Help messages in any of the following ways:
Right-click a control and click
What's this?
, and a pop-up Help window appears.
Click the
?
button at the upper-right corner of the frame, next to the
X
, to change the cursor to an
arrow with a question mark. Use this special cursor to select a control, and the pop-up Help window
for that feature appears.
Press the
F1
key, and the Help window for the currently selected control appears.
Context-sensitive Help
Press the
Help
button on a printer-driver tab or in a dialog box, and context-sensitive Help appears.
Constraint messages
Constraint messages are unsolicited messages that appear in response to specific actions. These
messages appear in response to selections that are illogical or impossible given the capabilities of the
product or the current settings of other controls. For example, if you click
Print on Both Sides
and then
change the paper type to
Transparency
, a message appears asking you to resolve this conflict.
Figure 4-1
A typical constraint message
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