Overview

JADE includes the JADE product information library in Web (HTML5) and in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) format. For details about specifying whether Web (HTML5) or print (PDF) format is used as the default for context‑sensitive help from the JADE development environment, see the UseJadeWebHelp parameter and the JadeHelpBaseUrl parameter in the [JadeHelp] section of the JADE initialization file. See also "JADE HTML5 Online Help", earlier in this chapter.

The examples files are not part of the installation process, and must be downloaded and installed from the JADE web site separately, if required.

Adobe PDF makes documents available across several platforms. You can open PDF files by using the Adobe Reader application that is freely available from the Adobe Web site, by using the licensed Adobe Acrobat application, or another PDF reader. Depending on the PDF reader that you are using, you:

Can adjust PDF documents for optimal viewing, print and copy from them, and navigate quickly using features such as bookmarks and document links.
Cannot make changes to a JADE PDF file opened in Acrobat Reader but you can copy text and paste it into other applications or you can add your own comments.

In this chapter, "Adobe Reader" is used to indicate both the full version of Adobe Acrobat (which allows the distilling, reading, and editing of PDF files) and Adobe Reader (which is a free product distributed for reading and printing PDF files). In either case, the procedures are the same.

For a summary of and access to the documents in the JADE product information library, see the JADE Product Information Library document (JADE.pdf), displayed when you select the Index command in the JADE development environment Help menu or when you click the General Help toolbar button and the UseJadeWebHelp parameter in the [JadeHelp] section of the JADE initialization file is set to false.

To access JADE documentation when Web help is disabled, perform one of the following actions

Select the Index command in the Help menu from within the JADE development environment or a JADE utility, to access the directory of JADE documentation.
Click the General Help toolbar button from within the JADE development environment or a JADE utility.
Press F1 in the JADE development environment editor pane when the caret is positioned on a JADE instruction, a primitive type, a system or Window class, property, method, event, or method option.
Click the Help button on a dialog from within the JADE development environment or a JADE utility.
Click the Context Help toolbar button from within the JADE development environment or a JADE utility and when the cursor changes to include a question mark (?) symbol, click on the window for which you require help.
Double-click on a PDF file (for example, from Windows Explorer).
Select the Open command from the File menu of Adobe Reader (or Adobe Acrobat) or the appropriate action in the PDF reader that you are using.
Select the JADE Help item in the JADE program folder that is displayed when you click on the Start menu (at the lower left corner of your monitor) and then select Programs.

The JADE.pdf document, which provides access to the JADE product information library, is then displayed.