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Thread Suggestion: Help its own app
Wed, May 11 2016 2:13 PMPermanent Link

Trinione

Tim:
Can you include the Help as a separate app in the Program group? That way it can be opened in a second monitor or desktop.

I know the PDF is available, but navigating the Help system is much more productive.
Wed, May 11 2016 3:57 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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<< Can you include the Help as a separate app in the Program group? That way it can be opened in a second monitor or desktop. >>

Sure, I'll see what I can do.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com
Thu, May 12 2016 5:22 AMPermanent Link

Matthew Jones

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

> << Can you include the Help as a separate app in the Program group?
> That way it can be opened in a second monitor or desktop. >>
>
> Sure, I'll see what I can do.

I agree, it would be nice to Alt-tab to it. The simplest way would be
to keep the existing help as-is, and provide a separate standalone
application that just shows the same help.


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Matthew Jones
Thu, May 12 2016 12:45 PMPermanent Link

Trinione

<< ...it would be nice to Alt-tab to it. >>

I recently started using Virtual Desktop and Alt+Tab is nowhere near as productive. Especially with a second or more monitor.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/virtuawin/
http://dexpot.de/?lang=en
http://virt-dimension.sourceforge.net/
Fri, May 13 2016 4:07 AMPermanent Link

Matthew Jones

Trinione wrote:

>  Alt+Tab is nowhere near as productive

If you want to get into more fun, you need a 27" iMac with a 4k moniter
attached. Then set up VMs in different workspaces. I now swipe with
three fingers between complete "computers" and it is very good. I
usually have about 5 VMs going at the same time (full screen on the 5k
monitor, windowed on the 4k). It gets confusing actually when I start
remoting into other systems for a support thing too, and have too much
open, but the iMac never blinks.

(Also if one is going down this road, but developing mainly in Windows,
I found it best to keep with a Windows keyboard, otherwise I tripped
over the keys too much.)

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