The Help menu allows you to access help manuals, context sensitive help and enquire about updates.
Please note the shortcut keystroke for common operations are also defined on the menu, you can use the
keyboard shortcut to invoke the associated function directly from the keyboard.
HIARCS Chess Explorer Help
This will launch the HIARCS Chess Explorer manual in Windows HTML Help. The manual is searchable,
has a detailed contents and the manual is written to enable easy navigation around it.
Context help
While using HIARCS Chess Explorer it is possible to bring up context sensitive help by using this menu
item or the F1 keystroke. Context sensitive help gives you help information about the window, pane or
function you are currently using. The menu can only give context sensitive help on the main window. Use
the F1 key to access context sensitive help from a dialog.
About HIARCS Chess Explorer
This menu item shows information about the product. The About HIARCS Chess Explorer dialog also allows
you to update your license.
Check for updates
This menu item will launch a browser to contact www.hiarcs.com to see if any update is available for your
version of HIARCS Chess Explorer.
Recent game pop-up menu
Accessed by clicking the recent game shortcut icon
HIARCS Chess Explorer keeps a record of recently visited games in each database so it is easy to revisit
games previously viewed in the database by using the recent game icon. Click the icon and you will be given
a menu of recent games with game number in database, player names and result, here is an example:
You can then select the game you wish to load.
Filter pop-up menu
In the bottom right hand corner of the main window the number of filter and database games is given, for
example:
This shows you that the Game Explorer pane is showing 287 out of 34191 games. The current filter contains
those 287 games.
You can right click on the filter/database games number to pop-up the Filter menu:
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