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The Help API allows you to mess around with the help files. | The Help API allows you to mess around with the help files. | ||
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| + | |[[help.path]]()|{{Type|string}} path | ||
| + | |Returns the list of locations the API will look in for help files. | ||
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| − | + | |[[help.setPath]]({{type|string}} path)|{{Type|nil}} | |
| + | |Sets the list of locations the API will look in for help files. | ||
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| − | + | |[[help.lookup]]({{Type|string}} topic)|{{Type|string}}/{{type|nil}} path | |
| + | |Returns the path to the file containing the help page for <var>topic</var>, or {{type|nil}} if the topic cannot be found. | ||
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| − | + | |[[help.topics]]()|{{Type|table}} topics | |
| + | |Returns a list of all available help topics. | ||
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| − | + | |[[help.completeTopic]]({{Type|string}} topic prefix)|{{Type|table}} topic suffixes | |
| + | |Returns a list of suffixes that can be concatenated with the prefix to get valid topic titles. ''Requires CC 1.74 or later.'' | ||
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[[Category:APIs]] | [[Category:APIs]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:56, 31 July 2015
The Help API allows you to mess around with the help files.
 Help (API) | ||
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| Function | Return values | Description |
| help.path() | string path | Returns the list of locations the API will look in for help files. |
| help.setPath(string path) | nil | Sets the list of locations the API will look in for help files. |
| help.lookup(string topic) | string/nil path | Returns the path to the file containing the help page for topic, or nil if the topic cannot be found. |
| help.topics() | table topics | Returns a list of all available help topics. |
| help.completeTopic(string topic prefix) | table topic suffixes | Returns a list of suffixes that can be concatenated with the prefix to get valid topic titles. Requires CC 1.74 or later. |
