Errata

Creating Effective JavaHelp

Errata for Creating Effective JavaHelp

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 2
first sentence in the second paragraph

The first sentence in the second paragraph has been replaced with

As shown in Figure 1-1, JavaHelp uses a tripane window (a window with three
frames), which contains a Toolbar pane, a Navigation pane, and a Content pane.

Figure 1-1 has been replaced to reflect this change.

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 9

"student pilot site" has been changed to "avbook.com", keeping the boldface font.

The following sentence has been added to the end of this paragraph:

(The HelpSet Viewer cannot display all HTML-format files. See Chapter 4,
"Preparing Help Topcs," for more information.)

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 10
Figure 1-4

Figure 1-4 has been replaced with a new figure.

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 30
In the first line of the first paragraph

"manyways"

has been changed to:

"many ways"

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 53
first paragraph after "Using the <title> tags

In the first paragraph after "Using the <title> tags ..." heading, the following new sentence has been inserted after 1st sentence ("... help-topic
files"):

Also, in JavaHelp 1.1 and later, the titlebar of a secondary window
displays the text of its topic file's <title> element.

* In the above sentence, "<title>" is in constant-width font.

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 57
In the fifth paragraph (VariableList)

"and a <map> element"

has been changed to:

"and a <maps> element"

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 72
third bullet, the second sentence ("Secondary windows have ...")

In the third bullet, the second sentence ("Secondary windows have ...") has been replaced with the following new sentence:

In JavaHelp 1.1 and later, a secondary window does have a titlebar; it
displays the text of its topic file's <title> element.

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000
Printed
Page 115

(115) Figure 9-1 has been replaced with a new figure.

 Anonymous    Sep 01, 2000