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Bug 140164

Summary:	Help system needs button to turn off search highlighting
Product:	platform	Reporter:	giorgio42 <giorgio42>
Component:	Help System	Assignee:	mslama <mslama>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	Highligh Search button in Ganymed Help

Description giorgio42 2008-07-15 20:46:38 UTC

If the term I have been searching for has many hits on a help system page, the text is almost unreadable due to all the
highlighting. Please provide a button to turn the highlighting off (I think many IDE's help systems provide this
feature, Eclipse being among them, FWIW).

Comment 1 mslama 2008-09-01 16:55:59 UTC

Where is it in Eclipse? I tried 3.4.0 on Linux/GTK and did not see anything to reset search highlight. Anyway it is
enhancement for Javahelp. I filed issue https://javahelp.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24.

Comment 2 giorgio42 2008-09-01 20:49:16 UTC

Created attachment 68816 [details]
Highligh Search button in Ganymed Help

Comment 3 giorgio42 2008-09-01 21:11:35 UTC

See attachment (the one enclosed in a blue square).

Just delegating to JavaHelp is not enough. I have looked at all the 24 bug reports there and I got the impression that
JavaHelp is in a dismal state. Is it under active development at all? If JH is not sufficient, NB needs to roll its own
help system (would be a really thing, but imagine all the NB RCP-based applications will be accompanied by a
underfeatured, dated looking help system...).

BTW: Another extremely useful button in the attached screenshot is the fourth one (from the left) with the outline icon
("Show in All Topics" or "Show in Table of Contents").

Comment 4 giorgio42 2008-09-01 21:13:32 UTC

"...would be a really thing...". Of course I wanted to write "...really bad thing...".

Comment 5 mslama 2008-09-02 10:08:28 UTC

I see. I opened Help Contents which opens separate window without any toolbar. When I open Search/Dynamic Help it opens
Help in main window and there is toolbar.