Online Help

The IDE provides integrated online help that can be invoked by pressing F1 on any identifier in the code editor, and also browsed via the fifth "Help" tab of the navigation pane (⌘5 in Fire).

Elements ships with pre-made indexes for this documentation site, the documentations for RemObjects Software's other library products, as well as the vendor-provided first-party platform documentations:

• Elements Docs (this site)
• Remoting SDK Docs
• Data Abstract Docs
• Hydra Docs
• .NET API Docs (provided my Microsoft)
• Java API Docs (provided by Oracle)
• Android API Docs (provided by Google)
• Cocoa API Docs (provided by Apple)

An offline index is included for fast lookup, but the actual content will load from the online sources linked above. In Fire, you have the option of having help topics invoked with F1 open in the embedded help tab or externally in the system's default web browser. This can be toggled in Preferences. In Water, help topics will always open externally in the browser.