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"Show help" popup: provide "Go Back" and "Go forward" buttons if user has clicked on a link in the widget explanation
What's your use case? Clicking on the "Show Help" or "?" button in a widget's dialog box opens a popup explaining the use of that widget. The explanation may contain web links, for instance to Wikipedia; clicking on a link replaces the explanation by the web page to which the link is pointing. Clicking on links on that web page opens other web pages. As far as I know, there is no straightforward way to go back to the explanation or the previously visited web page other than closing the popup and clicking on "?" once again.
What's your proposed solution? Provide simple "Go Back" and "Go forward" buttons (< and >) in the explanation window that are greyed out as long as the user hasn't clicked on a link and become active once a link has been clicked on.
Are there any alternative solutions? As said: closing the popup and clicking on "?" once again.
Alternative: it could be better if links from documentation would open in the browser.
Or the documentation itself could open in a browser too... Then it would remove some code to maintain?
We discussed that solution, too. I am actually in favor of that alternative; most software today opens documentation in the browser.
I noticed that in Preferences > Output there is an option "open help window in external browser" already. All there is to do, is make this option the default ...