The help menu
The help menu provides access to useful help, tips and tutorials.
Each item is covered briefly below, in menu order.
Tips
Help menu Tips... shows the tip dialog where you can browse tips in random order
Here you can also choose whether to display the tips dialog while launching programs.
About box
Help menu About Bug Validator... shows contact and copyright information, as well as details of your license
Overview video
Help menu Overview video... displays the Bug Validator overview video.
Readme and version history
Help menu Readme... opens the readme.html (from your installation) in your browser.
The readme file contains all the latest information about Bug Validator including:
•basic information about getting started and where to go for support
•known issues
•version history
To see what's changed since the version you have installed see the latest version history.
Help HTML
Help menu Help Topics... shows the HTML help dialog
You might be reading this right now!.
Or click on the question mark icon on the standard toolbar:
The key also shows the help, but has the added bonus of jumping directly to the page relevant for the current view or dialog.
We occasionally get reports of customers seeing exception errors while viewing the HTML help. Unfortunately, we don't have a solution for this!
Help PDF
Help menu Help PDF shows the PDF version of this help. This will open in your web browser on most computers.
PDF help for all our software tools are online.
Help on softwareverify.com
Blog
Library
Tutorials
The tutorials are intended to guide you through learning how to use aspects of Bug Validator.
Latest tutorials are available online in the form of short videos and examples covering popular topics.
Help menu Tutorials simply selects the Tutorials tab to show a list of the tutorials
Double click on the row of a tutorial in the list to open it in a browser.
Help menu Tutorials on softwareverify.com... opens the online tutorials in a browser
Contact customer support
Help menu Contact customer support shows the Contact customer support dialog.
How do I?
Help menu How do I? shows the How do I? dialog.
Report a crash
Help menu Report a crash displays the options for reporting a crash.
If an exception report for the Bug Validator user interface, or an exception report for an application that Bug Validator was monitoring is available it will be displayed with options to copy it to the clipboard and contact customer support at Software Verify.