Context sensitive help

[IoanaPirvu]

Hi!
I have a little problem with context sensitive help. I have a .hlp file(SET HELP TO MyHelp.hlp) and I assigned context Id's for calling the file. But it doesn't work. But if I set WhatsThisHelp Property to true and assign a WhatsThisHelpId all works fine, as I want it to (pop-ups appear when I press F1).
I wonder what the problem is.

Thanks

 

[Mike Lewis]

I assigned context Id's for calling the file. But it doesn't work.

What exactly doesn't work? What command or function are you using to invoke the Help?

Mike


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[IoanaPirvu]

So...I have a .hlp file and I want a popup to apear when I press F1, explaining the field whish has the focus.
What happens
- if I assign to the HelpContextID property the corresponding number from the .hlp file while the WhatsThisHelp property is set to false the following message appears: The topic does not exist. Contact your application vendor for an updated help file (129).
- if I set the WhatsThisHelp property to true keeping the HelpContextID the following message appears in a popup (instead of my topic)when pressing F1: " no help topic associated with this item"
- if I set the WhatsThisHelp property to true and assign to the WhatsThisHelpID the corresponding number from the .hlp file , no matter what the HelpContextID is, I get what I want: pressing F1 a popup window appears with the topic I want.

I know that it shoul work only assigning the HelpContextId, because WhatsThisHelp is for other ways to show help.
What should I do and what am I doing wrong?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi Iona,

if I set the WhatsThisHelp property to true and assign to the WhatsThisHelpID the corresponding number from the .hlp file , no matter what the HelpContextID is, I get what I want: pressing F1 a popup window appears with the topic I want.

That's exactly what I do in my own applications, and it gives exactly the result I want. In fact, I don't know any other way of achieving that result.

In fact, I go a bit further. I have a custom WhatsThisHelp button on my main toolbar. When the user clicks on this, the mouse pointer changes to the WhatsThisHelp pointer; the user can click on a control and see the same popup as when they press F1. To achieve that, the Click event of the button calls the active form's WhatsThisMode method.

However, you don't really need to do that. If you just want to provide popup Help with F1, your approach is correct.

Mike



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[IoanaPirvu]

Thanks a lot!
I thought I was doing something wrong because I do not use a Help button, but the F1 key.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Iona,

You're welcome.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk