Introduction to Help4j

The diagram above shows how Help4j provides information on different panes and screens. Click on any of the areas of the screen for more information.

Help4j contains three main areas: The Navigation Bar on the top, the tree panes to the left, and the content panes to the right. The Navigation Bar, is used to search classes or elements by name, abbreviation etc. It can also be used to set options, copy an import statement to the clipboard etc. The tabbed pane at the left contains a tree view of the elements (fields, constructors, methods etc.) belonging to a class, a package tree and the index. The right pane provides specific information about the selected class or element. It consists of three tabs: a tab with Code Examples, a tab providing Links and Hints and a tab showing JavaDoc information.

The example shows information about the class java.io.File (on this overview screen, the information is not readable; more detail is visible when you click on any region). In the class tree on the left, the exists() method has been selected.