What's This? Help pop-ups not appearing consistently

[clocky]

Hello,

I'm a tech writer working with a programming team - helping them to develop their WinHelp and What's This? Help documentation. We have found that the functionality of the What's This? Help pop-ups are not appearing consistently when you right-click a control in a property sheet (or tab). Does anyone know why this would be happening and where we should look to make sure the code it coded correctly? How should it be coded?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Guest_imported]

Each property page on a property sheet is not updated until you click on that page (tab). That may be the problem. Not sure what the help pop ups are but that might help.

Brother C

 

[branko]

Hi,
I had a problem with calling help, not the pop ups.
The problem occurred when I opened a file from a different directory than the program directory before using help. When I called help then, it could not be found.
I solved it like thisfrom MSDN)

//First free the string allocated by MFC at CWinApp startup.
//The string is allocated before InitInstance is called.

free((void*)m_pszHelpFilePath);

//Change the name of the .HLP file.
//The CWinApp destructor will free the memory.

m_pszHelpFilePath=_tcsdup(_T(HelpPath));


I don't know if this is related to your problem.
Hope this helps you

Branko