Help Window

A browser for displaying help information on TOPCAT. It is probably the window in which you are seeing this text. The panel on the left hand side gives a hierarchical view of the available help topics, and the panel on the right hand side displays the help text itself. The bar in between the two can be dragged with the mouse to affect the relative sizes of these windows.

Toolbar

Back

Moves backward through the list of topics in the order you have looked at them.

Forward

Moves forward through the list of topics in the order you have looked at them.

Print

Pops up a dialogue to permit printing of the current page to a file or printer.

Page Setup

Pops up a dialogue to do printer setup.

External URL

The help browser is an HTML browser and some of the hyperlinks in the help document reference documents outside of the help document itself. Selecting these links will go to the external documents. When the viewer is displaying an external document, its URL will be displayed in a line at the bottom of the window. You can cut and paste from this using your platform's usual mechanisms for this.