Context-sensitive help is focused user assistance content, specific to the
current application context (that is, the help context), and presented on demand
when a platform-specific trigger is activated (for example, F1 on Windows).
Context-sensitive help requires interactions between user interface (UI)
components, user assistance (UA) components, and the Eclipse platform help
system.
UI components:
- Contribute UI controls
- Define the association of help contexts with UI controls
UA components:
- Contribute context-specific help content and online documentation content
- Define the association of help contexts with context-specific help content and
related online documentation topics
Eclipse help system:
- Resolves help context references to matching context-specific help
contributions
- Contributes the help presentation mechanisms (for example, the Help view)
- Provides API to enable context-sensitive help interactions for UI and UA
components