I must be doing something incredibly silly so forgive this question please. How do I get the Help Button in the IDE to do something. If it is pressed a drop down menu appears allowing you to access reference and other helpful looking topics but nothing appears. Reference is installed and I can access all the functions but surely I should be able to do it with the Help Button.
I'm using Win XP SP3 and I have reinstalled twice to its own folder from Winzip so I assume the folder structure is correct. What am I doing wrong?
Tony
Help->Reference brings up a web browser with the built-in HTML reference pages. Perhaps something in your configuration is preventing it from starting the default web browser. If you open a local HTML file does it open in your default web browser?
johnwasser
Thanks for your interest. I use Firefox and it is my default browser. I can open all the html pages in the reference folder, just no action in "Help"!
Tony
I have solved my problem. The Arduino IDE needs to be installed in the C:\ Program Files folder for it to find the references from the Help Button. I had installed Arduino in my programming Download\ Programming partition and from there it can't see the reference folder or at least it does not fire up Firefox to display it.
I would like to suggest that there is a warning to this effect (if I've missed it , I apologise) or maybe make this an option in the Preferences setup.
Tony