src/ui_context_help.cpp

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ struct HelpHint {
 /// The table, which is the whole of the curation: a new surface is a row, and the heading row it
 /// names must already exist in `App` (that is what `ui_app.hpp`'s help-layer fields are for).
 ///
-/// The trigger, cursors, measurements and signals headings live on slide-over pages, which exist
+/// The trigger, cursors, measurements, events and signals headings live on slide-over pages, which exist
 /// (unmapped) whether or not the page is open: their hints are attached all the time and drawn while
 /// the page is on screen, so the dock needs no hint of its own and the layer has one code path.
 constexpr HelpHint kHelpHints[] = {
@@ -100,14 +100,16 @@ constexpr HelpHint kHelpHints[] = {
      "measurement editor. A signal's badge, dragged onto a plot, draws it there.",
      "G", &App::signals_head},
     {"events", "The event history",
-     "Every triggered acquisition the cache keeps, with a picture of each. Open one to read it as a "
+     "Every triggered acquisition the cache keeps, with a picture of each. A double click on one "
-     "file, or select two or four and have them compared in two plots or overlaid in one.",
+     "replays it, or select two or four and have them compared in two plots or overlaid in one. The "
+     "dock keeps a short list of the newest, where one click replays; its Manage button opens this "
+     "page.",
      "", &App::events_head},
     {"events_record", "Recording events",
      "With this on, every acquisition the trigger latches is written to the event cache -- the "
      "samples around it and a picture of it -- so an event can be read again long after it has left "
-     "the live buffer. It is the switch beside it, and the same one the events pane shows the result "
+     "the live buffer. It is the switch beside it, and the same one the dock's Events block and the "
-     "of.",
+     "events page show the result of.",
      "", &App::trigger_record_row},
     {"trigger_advanced", "The trigger's finer settings",
      "Pre-trigger share is how much of the event window is kept *before* the crossing, and hold-off "

src/ui_tour.cpp

@@ -456,9 +456,10 @@ constexpr TourStep kTourSteps[] = {
      &App::trigger_body},
     {"side", nullptr, "The dock",
      "The dock beside the plot is a read-only copy of the cursors and of every measurement, in a "
-     "fixed width. Edit, beside each heading, opens that instrument's full panel over the plot; a "
+     "fixed width, with the recorded events below them: one row per latched event, newest first, and "
-     "click on a measurement opens its dialog. The side-panel button in the bar above shows and hides "
+     "one click on a row replays it. Edit, beside each heading, opens that instrument's full panel "
-     "the dock.",
+     "over the plot, Manage opens the full list of events; a click on a measurement opens its "
+     "dialog. The side-panel button in the bar above shows and hides the dock.",
      &App::side_box},
     {"signals", "signals", "Adding a signal",
      "What can be added: the signals the source declares that are not acquired yet, each with the "
@@ -504,7 +505,7 @@ void start_tour(App& app) {
     app.settings.tour_seen = true;
     (void)save_settings(app.settings);
   }
-  // The main window has no page stack (the dock holds only the readouts): its pages are the slide-over's, and
+  // The main window has no page stack (the dock holds the readouts and the events block): its pages are the slide-over's, and
   // the view's `on_page` hook opens one (or closes the panel for a stop with no page), replacing the
   // `page_stack` mechanism the chooser keeps.
   app.tour.on_page = tour_open_page;