Re: Fast Access to Installed Packages
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- Subject: [mg98368] Re: Fast Access to Installed Packages
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 05:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
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David Park wrote: > I like to have fast ways to access a package documentation. One thing that > would be helpful is if the 'Add-Ons and Packages' and 'Standard Extra > Packages' were actually on the drop down Help menu list so we didn't have to > go through the documentation center or type in the package name. I would use > these much more than most of the other items on the menu. For example, why > is 'Find Selected Function' on the menu list since we can do it much faster > directly from a notebook? > > > > In lieu of that, I would like to put a command in a package such as > 'PackageNameHelp' such that it it were evaluated it would bring up Version 6 > documentation. > > > > I know how to do it for Version 5 Help Browser documentation. One uses: > > > > PacletManager`Package`helpBrowserLookup["packagename"]; > > > > But I don't know how to write such a statement for Version 6 documentation. > > > > Can anyone help? > Yes, I have been hacking into the documentation system a bit in order to document my DebugTrace package. You can load that by using: Documentation`HelpLookupPacletURI["DebugTrace"] This works for GUIKit and Quantum (my version is only partially interfaced with the DC) - so I guess it is general. You can also pull up the documentation for a particular function, for example Documentation`HelpLookupPacletURI["GUIKit/ref/CloseGUIObject"] David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk