[dojo-contributors] dojox.help (or something)

[Neil Roberts]

So thanks to one of the recent cookies posted over on the Dojo Campus (http://dojocampus.org/content/?p=62 
), I was motivated to create a little demo this afternoon.

Feel free to hit up any of the pages in my directory to test this out,  
but I've been working from: http://dojotoolkit.org/~pottedmeat/dojox/dtl/demos/demo_HtmlTemplated.html 
  because I like that page and it gives a lot of objects to look at.

This all is assuming you're working in the Firebug console.

Type dojo.require("dojox.help") in the console to get things started.

I did 2 things:

First of all, if you simply type the name of a function in the Firebug  
console, it will give you the proper name when outputting the  
function. It will also load the parameter information. Right now, I'm  
not able to load the parameter information synchronously, so if you  
wait a second and type the function name again, it will have type  
information, etc.

Secondly, everything now has a "help" function. So you can do  
dojo.byId.help() or dijit._Widget.attributeMap.help() and it will  
print out a lot of information on the object in the console.

It would be nice to get this into DojoX somewhere, figured I'd show  
the demo before we talk about that though.

-Neil