
294 9 Chapter 14: Developing Help and Assistance
software project but instead is part of the entire suite of documenta-
tion and information that makes the product usable and makes peo-
ple understand what they can do with it.
This chapter helps you understand how to develop help and assis-
tance on Mac OS X. The technology (Apple Help and the Help
Viewer) goes back to Mac OS 8.6, so it is nothing new to old hands
at the Macintosh~both users and developers.
Providing Help
Your application is just a bunch of code that requires a user's
actions to place it in motion. How a user works with your
code and what is done with it depends ...